Lita Judge became a naturalist at a very early age when she joined her ornithologist grandparents in the field and observed the behavior of all kinds of animals and their young. She is the author and illustrator of more than twenty fiction and nonfiction books for young readers, including How Big Were Dinosaurs?, Bird Talk, Born in the Wild, Flight School, and Red Sled. She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, with her husband, two cats, and a parrot.