Lu and the Swamp Ghost
James Carvilleis the best-known and most-loved political consultant in American history. He is also a speaker, talk-show host, actor, and author with sixNew York Timesbestsellers to his credit. Part of a large Southern family, he grew up without a television and loved to listen to the stories his mama told. Mr. Carville lives with his wife, Mary Matalin, and their two daughters in New Orleans.Patricia C. McKissackis the author of many highly acclaimed books for children, includingGoin' Someplace Special,a Coretta Scott King Awardwinner;The Honest-to-Goodness Truth; Let My People Go,written with herhusband, Fredrick, and recipient of the NAACP Image Award;The Dark-Thirty,a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner; andMirandy and Brother Wind,recipient of the Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.David Catrowis the illustrator of numerous notable books for children, including the other Silly Dilly books, as well as Kathryn Lasky's She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!, which was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Mr. Catrow is also a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist whose work appears in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as in nine hundred other newspapers. He lives in Springfield, Ohio.