Carmela LaVigna Coyle is the author of the bestselling Princesses series as well as three other books. She lives in Denver, Colorado. Steve Gray is an award winning children's picture book illustrator. He has illustrated a number of children's books including Farmer McPeepers and his Missing Milk Cows by Katy Duffield, which was chosen two years in a row by the California Teachers Association to promote Read Across America and was an Arkansas Diamond Honor book winner.