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Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, Westphalia. After her Abitur (A-levels) she moved to Hamburg where she graduated in education theory. Following university, she worked for three years in an educational project while completing a course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design.

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Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended New York City Public Schools and studied voice at the High School of Music and Art. He enrolled in Hunter College in Manhattan but left soon after "to become a beatnik."

Jack has been a cab driver, a busboy, a photographer, a furniture mover, a potter, and a folk singer.

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Debi started writing children's books in 1976, then attended art school in Edinburgh from 1979 to 1984. She received a travelling scholarship award to go to Milan, and worked as a freelance from 1984 onwards. She lives and works in Scotland, and her studio is situated in a thirteenth-century herb garden. She now has four children and her book No Matter What is dedicated to them.

Robert Cormier (pronounced kor-MEER) lived all his life in Leominster, Massachusetts, a small town in the north-central part of the state, where he grew up as part of a close, warm community of French Canadian immigrants. His wife, Connie, also from Leominster, still lives in the house where they raised their three daughters and one sonâ??all adults now. They never saw a reason to leave. â??There are lots of untold stories right here on Main Street,â?� Cormier once said.

Jan Brett was born on December 1, 1949 in Hingham, Massachusetts. She went to school at Colby Junior College from 1968-1969 and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School in 1970. Today, she lives in the seacoast town of Norwell, Massachusetts, an historic area on the South Shore, and spends her summers in the mountains where she does a lot of work on her books. She writes her own books and also adapts and illustrates folktales. As an illustrator, she does the illustrations of books by other authors as well. For those of us who love her books, we can appreciate the many hours she spends in putting many details in her books. That's important to her, too. It takes her about a year to finish one book.

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White (1899-1985)

E.B. White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of a prosperous piano manufacturer. After service as an Army private in 1918, he entered Cornell University and graduated in 1921. White worked in some miscellaneous jobs, such as a reporter for United Press, the American Legion News Service, and the Seattle Times.

A(lan) A(lexander) Milne (1882-1956)

English writer, the creator of Winner-the-Pooh. Milne wrote many different kinds of books, humorous verses and light comedies as a staff member of Punch, and the detective novel THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY, which was severely criticized by Raymond Chandler. But Milne's most popular works are WINNIE-THE-POOH (1926) and THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER (1928). In spite of his fame as a children's book writer, Milne was not "inordinately fond" of children.

If you are a dreamer, come in, begins Invitation, the opening poem in Where the Sidewalk Ends. Millions of dreamers have answered that call, returning again and again to the poems, drawings, fables, songs, plays, and all the other inspired creations of the incomparable Shel Silverstein.

Hans Christian Andersen

A DANISH author, whose fairy tales have been translated into more than 80 languages and have inspired plays, ballets, films, and works of sculpture and painting. Born in Odense, he suffered from poverty and neglect during his childhood, and when he was 14 years of age he ran away to Copenhagen. There he worked for Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Theater, until Collin raised money to provide him with an education.