Lisa has always been surrounded with kids. She has them. She teaches them. She reads to them, and now writes for them. For the last 9 years, she has taught Special Education in inner city schools promoting community partnerships and setting up programs for emerging and intermediate readers. She has also written for Reader's Digest and freelanced for several newspapers. Lisa has joined forces with her longtime high school friend and illustrator, Laurie Stein, and together they are cooking up a batch of stories. Lisa Lewis is a special education teacher and natural—born storyteller. She lives in Toronto.
Laurie has been drawing ever since she could hold a crayon. As a three year old she took that crayon and scribbled her way up the staircase when her family moved to a new home. Since then, she has learned to draw on paper and canvas and has substituted that crayon for paints and pastels. Her drawings fill many children's books and her paintings hang in a number of homes across North America. She collaborates with her lifelong author/friend Lisa Lucas and they have a whole library of books waiting to be read aloud. You can see more of Laurie's work at www.lauriestein.com Laurie Stein graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design, and is the proud illustrator of several children's books. She lives in Toronto.