Elise Broach is the New York Times–bestselling author of award-winning books for children and young adults, including My Pet Wants a Pet, Bedtime for Little Bulldozer, the Masterpiece Adventures chapter book series, Shakespeare's Secret, The Wolf Keepers, and the Superstition Mountain Mysteries series. She lives in Connecticut.
Kelly Murphy has illustrated many books for children including the Masterpiece Adventure series, Masterpiece, Alex and the Amazing Time Machine, and the Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist books. She lives in Rhode Island.
Elise Broach is the New York Times bestselling author of Masterpiece, Shakespeare’s Secret and Desert Crossing, Missing on Superstition Mountain, the first book in the Superstition Mountain Trilogy, as well as several picture books. Her books have been selected as ALA notable books, Junior Library Guild selections, a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book, a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenage, an IRA Teacher’s Choice, an E.B. White Read Aloud Award, and nominated for an Edgar Award, among other distinctions.
Ms. Broach holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Yale University. She was born in Georgia and lives in the woods of rural Connecticut, walking distance from three farms, a library, a post office and two country stores.
Kelly Murphy has illustrated many books for children including
Masterpiece,
Alex and the Amazing Time Machine, and the Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist books. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.