Kathleen Kudlinski is the author of over 20 books for your readers, inlcuding Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology and Earthquake! A Story of San Francisco. Ms. Kudlinksi writes at a desk that holds a set of bookends made of fossilized dinosaur droppings. She lives in Connecticut.

S.D. Schindler has illustrated many books for children, including The Cod's Tale and A Confused Hanukkah. His favorite dinosaur is the brachiosaurus. He (Mr. Schindler, not the brachiosaurus) lives in Philadelphia

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An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Aston, illustrations by Sylvia Long. (Chronicle Books, 2006)

Dianna Aston spends lots of time in her backyard, inspecting the undersides of leaves, the branches of trees, and the bottom of compost piles, hoping to find new eggs. She often enlists the help of her husband, David; her children, James and Elizabeth; and their assorted pets. She lives in Texas. Her previous books include When You Were Born, Loony Little, and Bless this Mouse.

Sylvia Long is the illustrator of many best-selling books for children. Ms. Long's detailed paintings are inspired by her love of animals and the outdoors. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor written and illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2006)

Emily Arnold McCully has written and illustrated many children's books, including Caldecott Medal book Mirette on the High Wire and, more recently, Squirrel and John Muir. She divides her time between New York City and her home country.

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What Is Science? by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, illustrations by Sachiko. (Henry Holt & Co., 2006)

Rebecca Kai Dotlich is the author of many picture books for children, such as In the Spin of Things: Poetry of Motion and Away We Go!, winner of the Oppemheim To Portfolio Gold Award. She lives in Indiana with her husband, Steven.

Sachiko Yoshikawa has illustrated several books for young readers, including Beach is to Fun, which was named a Best Children's Book of the Year by the Bank Street College of Education. She grew up in Tokyo and not lives in Seattle with her husband, Wayne, and young daughter, Kinu.

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Wings of Light: The Migration of the Yellow Butterfly by Stephen R. Swineburne, illustrations by Bruce Hiscock. (Boyds Mills Press, 2006)

Stephen R. Swinburne is the author of Turtle Tide: The Ways of the Sea Turtles. A former National Park Ranger, he is also the author of Black Bear: North America's Bear; Coyote: North America's Dog; and Bobcat: North America's Cat. He lives in South Londonderry, VT.

Bruce Hiscock is the author/illustrator of a number of books, including The Big Caribou Herd: Life in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Coyote and Badger: Desert Hunters of the Southwest; The Big Tree; The Big Rock; The Big Storm; and The Big Rivers. He lives in Port Corners, New York.

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A Dangerous Engine: Benjamin Franklin, from Scientist to Diplomat by Joan Dash. (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2006)

Joan Dash is the author of several notable books for young readers, including The Longitude Prize, The World at her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller, and We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909. She leaves in Seattle with her husband.

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ER Vets: Life in an Animal Emergency Room by Donna M. Jackson. (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)

Donna M. Jackson, an award-winning author of nonfiction books for children, holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She spent many rewarding days at the Colorado State University's Veterinary Teaching Hospital while research ER Vets. She says that watching the highly skilled, committed, and compassionate emergy vet team in action inspired her work and that the advances in medical technology now available to pets amazed her.

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Oh, Rats! The Story of Rats and People by Albert Marrin. (Dutton Children's Books, 2006)

Albert Marrin, Professor Emeritus of History at Yeshiva University in New York City, began his teaching career as a social studies teacher, where he welcomed the challenge of making history come alive for his students. He continues to meet this challenge as a writer. The author of over two dozen award-winning nonfiction books for young people, Dr. Marrin received the Washington Post Non-Fiction Award for "outstanding lifetime contribution [that] has enriched the field of children's literature." He lives with his wife, Yvette, in Riverdale, New York.

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Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo II on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh. (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)

Catherine Thimmesh is an avid space enthusiast and has so far saved about $1,050 toward the advertised price tag of $98,000 that it will tkae to shuttle a tourist to space in the not-so-distant future. She can't wait to go. She lives with her family in Plymouth, Minnesota.

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Bone Detective: The Story of Forensic Anthropologist Diane France (From the Women's Adventures in Science Series) by Lorraine Jean Hopping. (Franklin Watts, 2005)

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Cool Stuff and How It Works by Chris Woodford and Luke Collins. (DK Publishing, 2005)

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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness by Erik Reece. (Riverhead Books, 2006).

Erick Reece teaches writing at the Univerisity of Kentucky in Lexington. His work appears in Harper's, Orion, and The Oxford American, among other publications. His Harper's story on which Lost Mountian is based won the Columbia University School of Journalism's 2005 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.

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Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations by Eric Dinerstein. (Island Press, 2005)

Eric Dinerstein is Chief Scientist and Vice-President for Science at World Wildlife Fun-US. Over the past 30 years, he has studied tigers, rhinos, bats, and many other creatures around the globe. He is the co-author of The Global 200 Ecoregions, a widely used blueprint for identifying and protecting the most representative and biologically important regions on Earth, examples of which form the basis for this book.

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Forgery: Crime-Solving Science Experiments by Kenneth G. Rainis. (Enslow, 2006)

Kenneth G. Rainis is a microbiologist, illustrator, and microscopist, as well as a cofounder of Neo/Sci Corporation, a science education company in New York. He has a B.S. in biology and a M.S. in protozoology. He has authored numerous science labs and science project books. Mr. Rainis is also a contributor, reviewer, and safety consultant for a number of high school and college biology textbooks. He lives in New York with his wife and children.

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The Great Graph Contest by Loreen Leedy. (Holiday House, 2005)

Loreen Leedy was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1959. She majored in art in college but wasn't sure what kind of artist to be. She began making polymer clay jewelry and chess sets and selling them at craft shows. The pins, earrings, and chess pieces were whimsical pigs, cats, dragons, and other animals. At the age of twenty-five years old she began turning her jewelry into book characters. Her first published title was A Number of Dragons, a counting book written in verse. She has written and illustrated over 30 picture books, and is working on one right now in her studio in central Florida. Loreen’s husband, Andy, is a scientist who works on space biology research at Kennedy Space Center.

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Lowdown on Earthworms by Norma Dixon. (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2006)

Norma Dixon has worked as an ad writer and school programs guide at the Vancouver Museum and the VanDusen Botanical Gardens. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is now researching the lowdown on flies and molluscs.

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Thomas Edison for Kids by Laurie Carlson (Chicago Review Press, 2006)

Laurie Carlson is the author of Classical Kids, Colonial Kids, Days of Knights and Damsels, Green Thumbs, More Than Moccasins, and Westward Ho, and the coauthor of Kids Camp. She lives in Dallas, Oregon.

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