Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet whose work typically depicted rural early-twentieth-century New England. His most well-known poems include "Acquainted with the Night," "After Apple-Picking," "Birches," "Fire and Ice," "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," which the poet once called "my best bid for remembrance." During his lifetime, Robert Frost received the Congressional Gold Medal, was a four-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was nominated thirty-one times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

P.J. Lynch is the author-illustrator of The Haunted Lake and The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland's Good Fortune. Meticulous research informs all of his illustration work, which includes such acclaimed picture books as The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, and When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest. P.J. Lynch has received the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Christopher Medal three times. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.