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Lucy Falcone was a serious couch potato growing up and loved watching television. While living in Los Angeles, Lucy wrote for such television series as The Littlest Hobo, The New Monkees, and Nickelodeon's hugely popular Are You Afraid of the Dark?. She also started a production company, Northwind Productions, and produced a situation comedy pilot titled Choir Practice starring Susan Anton and Elaina Reed Hall (from the series 227). In 2003 Lucy turned her hand to writing novels. Her middle-grade supernatural thrillers include The Mysterious Mummer, Walking with the Dead, The Devil, the Bansee and Me, and The Midnight Curse. These four novels have garnered nine nominations, four wins (the Silver Birch, two Diamond Willows, and a Red Cedar award) as well as two Honour nods at the MYCRA Awards. Lucy has also created a comedic, early-reader kid-detective series The Ghost and Max Monroe, and published her first picture book titled, I Didn't Stand Up inspired by the poem First They Came... by Martin Niemoller. Anna Wilson is a freelance designer and illustrator who has spent most of her adult life traveling the world. She love storms and snow and is happiest running in the mountains or drawing in the streets of new cities. This is her first picture book.
"""An earnest tale about the power of story."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""Falcone wanted to stress the importance that libraries of the past and present have on a community and that those who sought to destroy them understood this importance and felt threatened by ideas and knowledge."" -- Julia Pitre * Canadian Review of Materials * ""By choosing to show us what is impactful for a child, Lucy Falcone gives a perspective that is elementary but profound by contrasting the darkness of conflict with the light of literacy."" -- Helen K * CanLit for Little Canadians * “An indomitable spirit emanates from Lucy Falcone’s thoughtful, affecting text. Her author’s endnote also serves as a potent reminder of how books have the transformative ability to bring “light in the darkest of times.” -- Linda Ludke * Canadian Children's Book News *"
