Stephanie Gibeault is an award-winning author of picture books and middle grade nonfiction for kids including Toby Tootles (Sleeping Bear Press, illustrated by Mary Sullivan); Calculating Chimpanzees, Brainy Bees and Other Animals with Mind-Blowing Mathematical Abilities (MIT Kids Press, illustrated by Jaclyn Sinquett); Making Sense of Dog Senses: How Our Furry Friends Experience the World (Owlkids Books, illustrated by Raz Latif); Dogs vs. Humans: A Showdown of the Senses (Owlkids Books, illustrated by Bambi Edlund); The Dog Who Saved the Bees (Sleeping Bear Press, illustrated by David Hohn), and co-author of Can’t Get Enough Dog Stuff (National Geographic Kids, co-authored with Moira Donohue). Stephanie grew up in Toronto and spent summers in the Ottawa Valley searching for snakes and racing turtles. After a career as a biologist, Stephanie became a certified professional dog trainer. Now she is a freelance writer with hundreds of articles in magazines and on the internet. She is a member of SCBWI, CANSCAIP, and 12x12 Challenge, and is represented by Jacqui Lipton at Tobias Literary Agency. Find out more at stephaniegibeault.com.