CAROL HEYER has illustrated 28 children’s picture books including Humphrey’s First Christmas and Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude, winner of eight state awards, as well as several Hank Zipzer books written by Henry Winkler. Formerly she was a production designer and writer of feature films including Thunder Run (1986), and she illustrated game materials for Dungeons & Dragons and the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. Her art is included in the collections of the Greisinger Middle Earth Museum in Switzerland and the Mazza Museum, the world’s largest museum of original artwork by children's book illustrators and has won awards from The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Spectrum, The International Competition for Fantastic Art, The Carnegie Art Institute, and The Society of Illustrators LA, among others.