Robert Munsch is the author of dozens of bestselling books, including Smelly Socks, Braids! and So Much Snow! He wrote this story for a girl in Fort McMurray, Alberta, where there are gazillions of blackflies in the spring. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Jay Odjick is an artist and writer from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Algonquin community,just outside of Maniwaki, Quebec. He has created comic books and produced the animated TV series Kagagi:The Raven,which airs in Canada, the US and Australia. He previously illustrated Robert Munsch''s story The Ocean Goes On Forever, which appears in the anthology Munsch Mania.