Dust Devil

Anne Isaacs was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She feels most at home in rural environments, such as the redwood forest near her Santa Cruz, California, home, where she lives with her husband and three children. The family has built their own treehouse, which they share with several squirrels and blue jays. Isaacs is the author of the Caldecott Honor Book Swamp Angel, and her other works include Cat Up a Tree and Treehouse Tales.

Paul O. Zelinsky was born in Evanston, Illinois. He attended Yale University, where he took a course with Maurice Sendak, which later inspired him to pursue a career in children’s books. He went on to receive a graduate degree in painting from Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia and Rome. His first book was published in 1978. Among many other awards and prizes, he received the 1998 Caldecott Medal for his illustrated retelling of Rapunzel, as well as Caldecott Honors for three of his books: Hansel and Gretel (1985), Rumpelstiltskin (1987), and Swamp Angel (1995). Paul Zelinsky lives in New York with his wife, Deborah.