PATRICK JENNINGS is the author of over twenty books for children. He was born in Indiana and moved to Arizona as a teenager. He attended Arizona State University and San Francisco State University, where he studied education, writing, and art. He has taught English and preschool in the United States and Mexico and was a librarian in the oldest public library in Arizona. He now lives and writes in a small seaport town on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington with his family. Visit him on the Web at patrickjennings.com.