Erica S. Perl works at Harvard University on the Harvard Children's Initiative, an interdepartmental effort to improve the plight of children in the community and the world. We have signed up a second book from her. She lives in Cambridge, Massachussetts. George Bates has done illustration work for Nickelodeon, MTV, Frank Zappa, and Big magazine. He teaches at Parson's School of Design. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.