LIZA JANE AND THE DRAGON

LAURA LIPPMAN is the award-winning writer of more than twenty crime-fiction novels. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her husband, David Simon, and her very smart daughter, Georgia Rae.

KATE SAMWORTH is a painter and illustrator from Maryland. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited around the country and abroad and can be found in the collections of the Kyoto Municipal Museum, the Woodmere Museum of Art, the Fun- dacion Lolita Rubial (Uruguay), and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art. Her rst book, Aviary Wonders Inc., won the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers in 2014.