Curtis Parkinson grew up in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in chemical engineering and worked in South America and in Canada for many years. Then he moved to the Caribbean to live on a sailboat and to write, a lifelong dream. As Curtis says, "Many rejections later, the cat fell off the boat one night, and the cat's story became my first book, Tom Foolery."

Andrea Wayne von Konigslow was born in Toronto Canada. As a child Andrea lived in Mexico where she learned to speak Spanish and eat hot chili peppers. She attended Thornton Hall, an arts high school, in Toronto. She received he B.A. in Psychology from Queen?s University, and while she was living in Kingston she illustrated science booklets, and cartooned for the Whig Standard newspaper.

After marring Rainer von Konigslow she moved to Montreal where she taught art to children at the Centre d?Education par la Music et les Artes. When she was pregnant, she found her new figure so comical that she began drawing greeting cards that sold at Shirley K maternity stores across Canada. She has had many art exhibits in Montreal and Toronto.

Andrea's books are translated into many languages including, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean etc. Andrea has three children, Alexis, Tai, and Kier.

"Children will relate to Emily's desire for a family like everyone else's."
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