Author Nancy Krulik graduated from Temple University. Before becoming a free-lance author, she was the editor of Scholastic's Hot Dog and Thrills and Chills magazines. She has written over 200 books for children and young adults including biographies of Hollywood's hottest young stars and teen and preteen advice books. She is best known for writing the Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo series and the How I Survived Middle School series.
DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan is an author and illustrator of more than forty picture books for children. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She likes to base the characters in her books on people she knows or people she has seen. Her works include Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen and City Green which were both Reading Rainbow selections and Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies. She also received a Congressional Commendation from the United States House of Representatives for her picture book Grandpa's Corner Store. She currently lives in a historical town right outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.