Mike Twohy is a Geisel Honor Award– winning author and illustrator of several books for children, including Poindexter Makes a Friend, Outfoxed about which The Horn Book said, "story time audiences will howl with laughter," Wake Up, Rupert! , and Mouse and Hippo, which the School Library Journal called "a story time hit." He has been a longtime contributor of cartoons to The New Yorker. He lives with his wife, cats, and yellow Lab in Berkeley, California.