Ursula Dubosarsky is the author of many outstanding books, both for young adults and for children, including Abyssinia, Theodora's Gift, The Word Spy and Return of the Word Spy. Mitch Vane has had a long career working as an illustrator and artist. She is interested in all forms of visual story-telling using a variety of mediums but is at her happiest drawing with a good old-fashioned dip pen and Indian ink.