The Golden Ghost (7 page)

Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than seventy books for children, including the Newbery Honor–winning
On My Honor
. She has also won the Kerlan Award for her collected work. Marion’s first Stepping Stone book,
The Blue Ghost
, was named to the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. Marion has recently retired from the faculty of the Vermont College Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.

Marion has nine grandchildren and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Peter Ferguson has illustrated such books as the Sisters Grimm series, the Lucy Rose series, and
The Anybodies
and its sequels, and he has painted the covers for many others. He lives in Montreal with his wife, Eriko, and cat, Yoda.