The Lonely Book
KATE BERNHEIMER is the author of the picture bookThe Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum,aPublishers WeeklyBest Book of the Year. Her most recent books for adults are Horse, Flower, Bird,a collection of stories, andThe Complete Tales of Lucy Gold, the third novel in a fairy-tale trilogy. She is the editor of the 2010 World Fantasy Award winning My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and the essay collections Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales andBrothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men in Fairy Tales.Visit her at katebernheimer.comCHRIS SHEBAN is best-known for his luminous jacket art for Kate DiCamillo's acclaimed novel,Because of Winn Dixie.  He is also the illustrator of many picture books, includingCatching the Moonby the bestselling novelist ofBee Season,Myla Goldberg, andA Night on the Rangeby Aaron Frisch. He's been awarded three Gold and three Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators. Visit him at ChrisSheban.com.