About the Author
Eve Merriam wrote more than fifty books for children and adults, including Where's That Cat?, coauthored with Pam Pollack and illustrated by Joanna Harrison, 12 Ways to Get to 11, illustrated by Bernie Karlin, and The Inner City Mother Goose, illustrated by David Diaz. An Obie-winning playwright, she won the National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. She taught writing at New York's City College and New York University, served on the Tony Awards nominating committee, and was an officer of the Authors League and the Dramatists Guild. Eve Merriam died in 1992.