Katherine Applegate is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who has written many children’s books, including The One and Only Ivan, which won a Newbery Medal, The One and Only Bob, Wishtree, Odder, and the Doggo&Pupper series. Katherine lives in Las Vegas with her loyal husband and naughty dog.
Gennifer Choldenko is the author of the Tales from Alcatraz series, which has sold more than two million copies, as well as several other books for young readers including Orphan Eleven, Chasing Secrets, and Al Capone Does My Shirts which won a Newbery Honor and twenty other awards. Gennifer lives in California, also with her loyal husband and her naughty dog.
Katherine Applegate is the #1
New York Times-bestselling author of beloved and award-winning books for young readers, including
Odder, Home of the Brave, Crenshaw, Wishtree,
Willodeen, and
The One and Only Ivan, for which she won the Newbery Medal. She is also the author of the Animorphs series, and a beginning reader series, Doggo and Pupper, illustrated by Charlie Alder. Katherine Applegate lives in Southern California with her family.
Gennifer Choldenko’s best known Tales from Alcatraz series has been called “A cornerstone series in contemporary children’s literature.”
Al Capone Does My Shirts—the first book in the series—was a Newbery Honor Book and the recipient of twenty other awards. All four books in the series were Junior Library Guild selections and garnered many starred reviews. Gennifer lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her loyal husband and naughty dog.
Wallace West is a world explorer spending most of his time on the US East Coast (the rest wherever strikes his fancy). He once foolishly pet a wild alligator and considers a tinned-fish picnic in Norway the best meal he's ever had. By day he writes and illustrates, by night he wonders if he should get a pet snake.
