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Illustrator Rebecca Evans is the illustrator of Friends in Fur Coats (The Gryphon Press) and eight other children s picture books, including Someday I ll Fly, and eight early readers. She has worked as an artist and designer before returning to her first love, children s book illustration and writing. She shares her love of literature and art with elementary school children. Rebecca lives in Maryland and enjoys spending time with her husband and three young children and working from her home.

Author Mary-Ann Stouck is the author of a previous children s title, A Fine Winter Cap (Walhachin Press), and the editor of a book for adults, Medieval Saints: A Reader. She is a retired Associate Professor of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. As a child, her first animal friend was a hamster, and as an adult she has given a home to horses, dogs, cats, turtles, rabbits and three more hamsters. She has been a volunteer at her local animal shelter, the British Columbia SPCA, for many years and a member of its community advisory board. Mary-Ann is deeply committed to fostering empathy between children and pets.