About the Author & Illustrator

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Andrea Stenn Stryer is an author, teacher, and librarian. Her previous book was The Celestial River: Creation Tales of the Milky Way. It tells remarkable stories that the Milky Way inspired in ancient peoples whether they thought of the galaxy as a river, a road, or even spilled milk.

In her teens, she first ventured into the Rocky Mountains. Ever since, her passion for the mountains has lured her to high altitudes, which led her into the Himalayas, the site of this story.

She savors adventures with her family from trekking in Nepal and snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef to walking through penguin rookeries in the Antarctica and animal spotting in the African savanna.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR:

Bert Dodson is a painter, teacher, author and illustrator. He has illustrated over 70 books for children. He has authored two books on drawing; Keys to Drawing (North Light, 1985), and Drawing & Imagination (North Light, 2006). He also co-authored The Way Life Works ( Times Books, 1995), and Intimate Strangers; The Story of Unseen Life on Earth (ASM Press, 1999). He was animation designer for the four-part PBS television series, Intimate Strangers (1998). He regularly exhibits his watercolors and drawings. Dodson has illustrated opera stories for children, a series commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera in New York.