About the Author

Michael Hague is one of America''s foremost illustrators and is renowned as the illustrator of many children''s classics. An honors graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, he has been influenced by a variety of artistic styles, ranging from the work of the Disney Studios to the Japanese printmakers Hiroshige and Hokusai. He has been particularly influenced by the turn-of-the-century illustrators Arthur Rackham, W. Heath Robinson, N. C. Wyeth, and Howard Pyle, and he is an avid collector of their books. Michael Hague lives with his wife, Kathleen, a writer of books for children, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.