Award-winning Children's book author and Journalist, Charlotte Inez Pomerantz was born on 7/24/1930, in Brooklyn, New York. She was raised in Brooklyn and New Rochelle, New York. She earned a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1953. She wrote 35 books. The Bear Who Couldn't Sleep (1965) was her first book. Some of her other books include, The Piggy in the Puddle (1974), All Asleep (1984), One Duck, Another Duck (1984), How Many Trucks Can a Tow Truck Tow? (1991), Halfway to Your House (1993), Here Comes Henry (1994), and The Mousery (2000). Charlotte Pomerantz died on July 7, 2022 in Charlottesville, Virginia. She was 92.
James Marshall grew up near San Antonio, Texas, and became an award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books. He is best known for his series on George and Martha, the tons-of-fun hippopotamuses; on the mischievous exploits of Fox, a debonair, lazy showoff; and on the misadventures of the Stupid Family. He died in 1992.
