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Rebecca Van Slyke Author

Rebecca Van Slyke earned her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She writes picture books, easy readers, nonfiction, middle grade fiction, and poetry. She is the author of Mom School, Dad School, and Lexie, The Word Wrangler. She is on the advisory committee for the Western Washington SCBWI and leads a writing group in Bellingham, WA. Find her on Facebook or at her website rebeccavanslyke.com.
 
Chris Robertson is an author-illustrator from Pasadena, CA. He graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in illustration and spent 10 years freelancing for magazines and newspapers before becoming a storyboard artist for Nickelodeon Animation Studios. His most recent books are Harry and the Hot Lava, My Yellow Umbrella, I’ll Trade My Peanut-Butter Sandwich, and Little Miss Liberty.