Many thanks to Stephanie McLaughlin and the Houghton Mifflin children's book publicity department for helping arrange this interview.

Additional special thanks to Gretta Miller, Tim Coursen, Rich Matheson, MJ Baumann and all at Clotho Advanced Media, Inc, for their invaluable, professional help with this production.

Of course, this entire Author Program occurred because of the kindness and generosity of Arthur and Bonnie Geisert, who shared their home, time, energy and food with me in order to make this production on a rainy day in May 2001.

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