автор: Jeff Crosby

Robert D. San Souci has been contributing retellings of folktales – including numerous tales from regional America – to magazines in the Cobblestone Publishing Group for many years. He has published many award-winning adaptations of this folk literature, including The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South (illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, a Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honor Book); Two Bear Cubs: A Miwok Tale from California»s Yosemite Valley (illustrated by Daniel San Souci, named Best Children»s Book by the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association); and Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale (illustrated by Brian Pinkney, winner of the Aesop Prize, awarded by the Children»s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society). The author currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.