Frieda Wishinsky is an award-winning author and teacher with a Master of Science in special education. Her first picture book, Ooonga Boonga , was voted "Pick of the List" by American booksellers, and Each One Special was nominated for a Governor General's Award. She has written more than forty trade and educational books, and many of them have been translated into French, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Korean, Spanish, and Catalan. Frieda lives with her family in Toronto.