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James Howe

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James Howe has written more than eighty books in the thirty-plus years he's been writing for young readers. It sometimes confuses people that the author of the humorous Bunnicula series also wrote the dark young adult novel, The Watcher, or such beginning reader series as Pinky and Rex and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award-winning Houndsley and Catina and its sequels. But from the beginning of his career (which came about somewhat by accident after asking himself what kind of vampire a rabbit might make) , he has been most interested in letting his imagination take him in whatever direction it cared to. So far,...

Karla Courtney

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Karla Courtney grew up in Toronto and spent summers in Arnold's Cove, Newfoundland. Her career started with a wool triangle - which she made accidentally when she was trying to knit a tiny scarf but kept adding stitches! She rolled the triangle into a cone, sewed the edges together to turn it into a hat, and wrote up the pattern. She's been making beanies and books ever since.