Anne Isaacs, voted "Most Promising New Author" by Publisher's Weekly in 1995, is the author of Swamp Angel, a Caldecott Honor book, and the much-acclaimed Treehouse Tales. Her latest book, Cat Up a Tree, was released in September 1998 to immediate high praise. She makes her home in Santa Cruz, California with her family. Paul O. Zelinsky is the award-winning illustrator of three Caldecott Honor books--Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Swamp Angel --as well as the 1997 Caldecott Medallist, Rupunzel. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.