The Pirate's Bed

NICOLA WINSTANLEY has always believed in the power of stories to bring comfort. She is the author of The Pirate’s Bed, A Bedtime Yarn, Cinnamon Baby, which won an honor prize for the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award and was shortlisted for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, How to Teach Your Cat a Trick and How to Give Your Cat a Bath, which was a finalist for the Govenor General’s Literary Award. Nicola lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with her family, a huge cat, and a tiny dog.

MATT JAMES has won many awards for his picture books such as the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the New Mexico Book Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature. The books he has written include Tadpoles; Nice Try, Charlie!; and his author-illustrator debut The Funeral, which was named a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book. He also illustrated When the Moon Comes by Paul Harbridge; The One About the Blackbird by Melanie Florence; The Stone Thrower by Jael Ealey Richardson; and I’m Afraid, Said the Leaf by Danielle Daniel.