Marcella Marino Craver , MSEd, CAS, recently started a new career as a school counselor after nineteen years as a school psychologist in New Jersey and New York public schools.

She is the author of Learn to Study: A Comprehensive Guide to Academic Success and Chillax! How Ernie Learns to Chill Out, Relax, and Take Charge of His Anger . Chillax! was awarded the Mom's Choice Gold Award for Juvenile Books - Self-Improvement and the Gold Moonbeam Children's Book Award for Comic Books/Graphic Novels.

Her next book, Joey Daring Caring and Curious: How a Mischief Maker Uncovers Unconditional Love , is due out in fall 2014.

Marcella lives with her wonderful husband, their two musically inclined teenagers, and a mischievous cat, who all fill her life with love, music, and laughter.

Amerigo Pinelli lives in the heart of Naples, among narrow streets and churches. A long time ago, when he was a child, he met a pencil, and from that moment on he started to play, joke, fight, and make peace with it. He dreams of becoming a cartoon character...but some say that he already is. Since the birth of his daughter Chiara his life has been overfilled with color and overfilled with joy. He is over the moon! You can find him chasing pigeons on the roof when the sun climbs on Vesuvio. Ask his wife, Giulia.