Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play
Ridley Pearson is the award-winning co-author, along with Dave Barry, ofPeter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, Peter and the Sword of Mercy, Escape From the Carnivale, Cave of the Dark Wind,Blood Tide,andScience Fair. In addition toKingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark,Kingdom Keepers: Disney at Dawn, andKingdom Keepers: Disney in Shadowhe is also the author of the young adult thrillersSteel Trapp: The ChallengeandSteel Trapp: The Academy. He has written more than twenty best-selling crime novels includingKiller ViewandKiller Weekend. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University.Tristan Elwell was born and raised in New York City, where he graduated from the High School of Music and Art. He attended the School of Visual Arts on a full scholarship, graduating in 1990 at the top of his class. While at SVA he also worked as a painting assistant to noted photo realist Charles Bell. After college he quickly established his career as an illustrator. In 1994 he joined the staff at SVA, where he teaches illustration and painting. He has done book covers for all the major publishing houses, including Avon, Bantam, HarperCollins, Penguin, Pocket Books, Scholastic, and Tor.