Suzanne Slade is a mechanical engineer who worked on Delta IV rockets for NASA. She has written more than one hundred children's books, including
Dangerous Jane;
Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story;
The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford;
Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass; and
The House That George Built. Suzanne lives near Chicago.
Alan Marks has been fascinated by space since watching the Apollo moon missions as a child. He is now the illustrator of many books for children, including
The People of the Town,
High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs,
Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle,
Little Lost Bat,
A Mother's Journey, and
Storm, winner of the Carnegie Medal. www.marksonpaper.co.uk