Dori Weinstein is an award-winning author who grew up in Queens, New York. Her first book in the YaYa & YoYo series, Sliding Into the New Year, won a Moonbeam Children's Book Award gold medal. Dori is a graduate of Binghamton University and Teachers College, Columbia University. She taught in public schools in New York City as well as at the Talmud Torah Day School in St. Paul, Minnesota. She currently teaches Hebrew to preschoolers. Dori lives in Minneapolis with her husband Gary and their three children. Visit Dori on Facebook, Twitter, and on her website at www.yayayoyo.com.