Patricia Mitter is the former Creative Director of the Cornell Lab Publishing Group and Persnickety Press. After earning her graphic design degree in Caracas, Venezuela, she moved to the United States with her husband. There, she began a new career path in the world of editorial design and quickly learned that her passion for nature and animals was a perfect fit. These board books are her first written and illustrated titles, following her illustration and design of her first children's title for the Cornell Lab Publishing Group, Bird Brainiacs.. Patricia is also a photographer and lives in Durham, North Carolina.