Melissa Stewart is the award-winning author of more than 180 science and nature books for young readers.
Hurricane Watch, her first Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out title, was recognized as an Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association. While gathering information for her books, Melissa has hiked in tropical rainforests, gone on safari in Africa, and swum with sea lions in the Galápagos Islands. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. You can visit her online at www.melissa-stewart.com.
Julius Csotonyi is a natural history illustrator with a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Manitoba. He is widely recognized for his masterful paleo artwork. Dr. Csotonyi’s work is in museums and in the National Geographic Society collection. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada. You can visit him online at www.csotonyi.com.
Steve Brusatte, PhD, is an American paleontologist who teaches at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. He is the author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. The paleontology advisor on the Jurassic World film franchise, Brusatte has named more than fifteen new species, including the tyrannosaur “Pinocchio rex” (Qianzhousaurus), the raptor Zhenyuanlong, and several ancient mammals. His research and writing has been featured in Science, the New York Times, Scientific American, and many other publications.