A native of Mousie, Kentucky, Paul Brett Johnson is a two-time recipient of the Kentucky Bluegrass Award and winner of the California Young Readers Medal. He has written and illustrated many young children's books, including The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down, which was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Fearless Jack, and The Goose Who Went Off In a Huff. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.