Anne Villeneuve loves to tell stories with her illustrations and her writing. Everywhere she goes, she studies people and animals alike and tries to capture the essence of the life surrounding her with her brushes and crayons. She never leaves home without her sketchbook, whose pages she’s constantly filling with colorful renditions of everything she sees.#Anne is the author and illustrator of many children’s books. Now, she’s tackling the world of graphic novels for adults. Her work can also be found in magazines and websites, on pastry boxes and even in certain metro stations!#She had the honor of being the designated illustrator for the TD Summer Reading Camp in 2018.#Over the years, her books have won many awards, including the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature – Illustration in 2000, the Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse in 2005 and 2009, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award in 2015 and the Quebec/Wallonia-Brussels award in 2000.#Anne lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Keith Gordon Campbell was born in a steamy, exotic place with wildebeest and other ungainly creatures. But he was promptly packed off to spend his tender years on a damp and salty island nation in the Far North, where wild winds rattle your windows and turn one’s umbrella inside out.#In the shadow of a looming black castle, Keith was educated in an old, turreted school with ghosts and secret passages and stuff. There he learned to love all things ghoulish, ghastly and rather gothic. He wasn’t one for chasing after balls or playing leapfrog; he preferred, even then, to find quiet corners where he could write peculiar stories and illustrate them with funny characters.#Later, he attended an even older university (though with less turrets) and graduated with a Masters in art history. That,it turned out, wasn’t a terribly useful trade (in fact, it’s not a trade at all), but somehow or other (he could never quite explain how) it turned him into an interior designer — in Hollywood of all the unexpected places!#But Keith never could stop thinking up stories and pictures to go with them. They kept piling up inside him, ’til he realized that if he didn’t get them out, he would almost certainly burst. He busied himself sending manuscripts to publishers and building a portfolio of artwork, until finally somebody noticed how hard he was working and decided to make him an author. He has written and illustrated Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters and The Mermaid and the Shoe.

Ben Clanton is a story scribbler, picture squiggler, book aficionado, child advocate, dragon tamer (he wishes!) and avid sock wearer (especially of the striped variety). He came to this planet in 1988 and has spent most of his time here reading, drawing, sleeping, gardening and eating chocolate.#Here are some other things you have always wanted to know about Benjamin David Clanton-Awesome:#His favorite sport is a toss up between quidditch, four square (he’s the reigning champ) and basketball.#He majored in anthropology/dragon taming and minored in politics at Willamette University.#Ben is 8% unicorn, 17% dragon, 26% English and 100% American.#Ben once rode on the back of an elephant.#Ben has never ridden a donkey (much to every donkey’s relief).#Ben once ate a dog biscuit. (It was disgusting.)#Ben loves to get stuff in the mail.#Ben is terrified of spiders — so don’t ever send him one.#He is a fan of wind-up robots, Legos and kids’ drawings.#Ben lives on a big hill in the rainy city of Seattle, Washington, with his wife and puppy. (His puppy thinks dog biscuits are quite yummy.)

Dave Whamond’s work has appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, Politico, USA Today, Owl and Highlights. He has illustrated over fifty books, including three for Robert Munsch, and has written a few too. Dave has a daily syndicated comic, Reality Check, which has appeared internationally in newspapers and online since 1995. #His awards include two Blue Spruce Awards, a Silver Birch Award, a Shining Willow Award and seven Reuben Awards from the National Cartoonists Society. His former high school chose him for a Hall of Fame award (which was a huge honor … and super weird).#Dave has loved to draw and write stories since he was a kid. His parents would buy huge rolls of newsprint and hang them in the halls. Dave would fill them up with drawings, then they would buy more, and he would fill it up again. #He also drew in the margins of his math homework. Now he draws for a living and has accountants do the math. #Dave also loved to make people laugh. When he told people that he wanted to be a cartoonist, they all laughed. But there’s no one laughing now! Which isn’t a good thing, being a cartoonist.#Dave can’t believe that he gets to wake up every morning and do what he loves for his job. He lives in Calgary with his wife, two kids and Aiko the wonder dog.#Fun facts: Dave often orders at the drive-thru in Homer Simpson’s voice. His kids love it.#Hidden talents: Dave is a huge klutz but can catch anything he drops or knocks over with ninja-like reflexes.#Guilty pleasures: Kraft Dinner.#Annoying habits: Dave (almost) never answers his phone. Because he is usually eating Kraft Dinner.~Twitter: @DaveWhamond