Joyce K. Ellis has been writing, editing, and teaching for more than forty years. She has published hundreds of articles and more than a dozen fiction and nonfiction books, including the Gold-Medallion-Award-winning One-Minute Bible for Kids. She and her husband have three grown children and seven grandchildren. Joyce enjoys traveling, a good cup of tea, and reading beside a lake, river, or ocean. Andr's F. Landaz bal is an illustrator and art-director based in Armenia, Colombia. His work has appeared in film, television and print for companies such as Sesame Street, Discovery Kids, and Fox. Andr's's love for drawing and painting was instilled at a young age reading classic illustrated children's books.