DAN BAR-EL is an award-winning children's author, educator and storyteller who has published chapter books, picture books, and graphic novels. Over the past twenty-one years, he has worked with children ages 3 to 13 as a school age childcare provider, a preschool teacher, a creative drama and a creative writing teacher. Dan is the author of Audrey (Cow), It's Great Being a Dad and Nine Words Max. He lives in Vancouver with Dominique, and Sasha, the best cat in the known universe. The author lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Classically educated and poorly socialized, VICKI NERINO likes to make a mess of things like comics, illustrations and paintings. Vicki appreciates visual dirt and noise, but shshsshhh be quiet, please. She smears paint with her fingers and scratchs ink off with her nails, but holy smokes does she ever clean up nice. She has a thing about tigers. Dog Night at the Story Zoo is her first book for kids.Vicki Nerino lives in Toronto, Ontario.