About the Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in 1797 in London, England. She was the daughter of two eighteenth-century intellectual giants: political philosopher William Godwin and famed feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Her magnum opus, Frankenstein, was conceived on a rainy night at Lake Geneva after a waking dream that she had a few nights after Lord Byron had proposed that they each write a ghost story. Suffering from a possible brain tumor, Shelley passed away in 1851.

Gina Gold has authored more than eighty children's books for Sesame Street, Disney, DreamWorks, Mattel, Warner Brothers, and other internationally-known franchises. She is also an Associated Press and Hearst Award-winning print journalist and a humor essayist whose work has been featured on NPR, in The Washington Post, and First Magazine for Women.

Oscar Dominguez is a Spanish illustrator who lives in Laredo, Spain.