Dandi Daley Mackall loves God, children, words, and animals. Her nearly 500 books for children and grown-ups have sold more than four million copies worldwide. She won the ECPA Christian Book Award for Best Children s Book 2015 and multiple Mom s Choice Awards, as well as ALA Best Book, NY Public Library Top Pick, Children s Book Council Award of Excellence, and the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children s Literature. Her novel My Boyfriends Dogs is now a Hallmark Movie. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her family, including horses, dogs, cats, and an occasional squirrel, deer, or raccoon.