Sly the Sleuth and the Food Mysteries

Donna Jo Napoli is both a linguist and a writer of children's and young adult fiction. Some of her work includes Treasury of Greek Mythology, Stones in Water, Treasury of Norse Mythology, and Daughter of Venice. She has five children and eight grandchildren. She dreams of moving to the woods and becoming a naturalist. She loves to garden, bake bread, dance, and make pottery.

Heather Maione loved dolls when she was a child, though not quite as much as she loved to draw. The illustrator of numerous children's books, she lives on Long Island with her husband and two children.