This book was published by Standard Publishing Company .

Crystal Bowman loves writing books for kids. Her books come in all shapes and sizes and many of them have become best sellers. Whether her stories are written in playful rhythm and rhyme, or short sentences for beginning readers, she tries to make them so enjoyable that kids will want to read them over and over again. "But the most important part," she says, "is to teach children that God loves them and cares about them very much. " Lisa Glatt is the author of the Abigail Iris series, as well as the short story collection The Apple's Bruise and the novel A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That. She teaches at California State University, and lives in California, with her husband and their two cats. www. lisaglatt. com Suzanne Greenberg is the author of the Abigail Iris series, as well as Speed-Walk and Other Stories, winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, 2003. She currently teaches creative writing at California State University. She lives in California, with her husband and their three children. www. suzannegreenberg. com Joy Allen has illustrated more than thirty books, including the Abigail Iris series for Walker, as well as Princess Party and the popular American Girl: Hopscotch Hill School series. She lives in California. www. joyallenillustration. com