Steve Mack is a freelance illustrator and has been illustrating professionally for the last decade. Steve has always loved illustrating from the time he could hold a pencil. When he was a young boy his mother would bring him home reams of dot matrix print-out paper from work that had been used on one side; the other side became Steve’s first canvas to explore his imagination through illustration.#Steve finished high school with an award in art and moved on to a three-year diploma program at Medicine Hat College, where he became an honor roll student in the field of Visual Communications.#After graduating, Steve embarked on his freelance illustration career and set up his first Web site in 1998. Shortly thereafter, jobs began coming in for publishing opportunities. He began to work with greeting card companies as well, such as Hallmark and American Greetings. Soon American Greetings signed Steve to an exclusive freelance contract: they made him an offer to work in-house in Cleveland, Ohio. #Steve has recently returned to Canada and his freelancing roots and now works for many clients, such as Target, Hallmark, American Greetings, Kids Can Press and many more. He has a small studio on a farm in the valley and lives with his wife and two small children.

Isabelle Arsenault was born in 1978 in Sept-Iles, Quebec. After studies in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, she specialized in illustration. Quickly, she gained recognition from the industry and her peers through several awards from major international illustration contests such as Communication Arts, American Illustration and Applied Arts. In 2005, she won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for the illustration of her first children’s book, Le Coeur de Monsieur Gauguin. Her passion for children’s imaginations allows her to produce images that appeal to young readers as well as older ones. Through children’s illustration she gives life to her own childhood dreams and in doing so, she hopes to inspire upcoming generations. Isabelle Arsenault now lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Andrej obtained a Masters Degree from the Academy of Art in Warsaw, Poland. There he studied painting and later graphic design and illustration. He felt comfortable working simultaneously on a variety of projects – including posters, logo designs, book covers, illustrations, cartoons and caricature works. After building a solid career filled with many achievements, awards, scholarships and points of recognition, Andrej has come full circle and returned to his original, true passions; painting, and illustrating children’s books. Taking comfort in pursuing art for the sake of simplistic joy and peace.

Joseph Kelly is the illustrator of the popular Kids Can Press Martin Bridge book series. He came to children’s illustration along a roundabout route that threaded through industrial design and concept animation.#He has always drawn, and in high school he used charcoal and brown paper to people the walls of his room with life-sized portraits of characters from The Lord of the Rings, something he would certainly do again if he were sure his wife wouldn’t mind living with a houseful of goblins. Though his drawings for the Martin Bridge books are somewhat smaller than life-sized, the number of shaded graphite drawings and acrylic paintings comes to over 650 pieces of art.#When he isn’t illustrating, Joseph uses a homemade lens and plumber’s pipe viewer to explore tide pools at the shore near his home in Sonoma, California, and is known for painting very large portraits of very small beach puddle residents.