R.L. STINE is one of the bestselling children's authors in history with more than 400 million books sold to date. In 1989, Stine created the Fear Street series, one of the bestselling young adult book series in history with 80 million copies sold worldwide. He is also the author of the bestselling children's series Goosebumps, which began in 1992 and has sold 300 million copies around the world. The Goosebumps series was made into a feature film starring Jack Black as R.L. Stine.
Chris Grabenstein is the author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, which has been nominated for twenty-two different state book awards and has already spent six months in the top ten on the New York Times bestseller list. Nickelodeon optioned the book to become a movie. Chris is also the coauthor, with James Patterson, of the #1 bestsellers I Funny, Treasure Hunters, and the House of Robots series . He is the critically acclaimed author of over twenty other books for children and adults, a playwright, screenwriter, and former advertising executive and improvisational comedian. Winner of two Anthony and three Agatha Awards, Chris wrote for Jim Henson's Muppets and cowrote the CBS TV movie The Christmas Gift starring John Denver. His dog Fred has better credits. Fred starred on Broadway in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. To find out more about Chris, visit him at www.ChrisGrabenstein.com.