Eileen Christelow is the author and illustrator of twenty-nine humorous picture books, including those in the Five Little Monkeys series, The Great Pig Escape, Letters From a Desperate Dog, and nonfiction titles What Do Illustrators Do?, What Do Authors Do?, and Vote! Her most recently published books are Five Little Monkeys Reading in Bed and The Desperate Dog Writes Again. Christelow travels widely to visit children at elementary schools across the country, and her books make frequent appearances on children’s choice lists. She lives with her husband, artist Ahren Ahrenholz, in Dummerston, VT.