About the Author

John M. Feierabend is a professor of music and the director of the music education division at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford. He is the author of The Crabfish, The Derby Ram, Father Grumble, The Frog and the Mouse, My Aunt Came Back, and There Was a Man and He Was Mad. He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut. Ashley Poulin is a recent graduate of the Hartford Art School in Connecticut where she studied illustration and art history. She lives in Marlboro, New York.