Christine Davenier is the award-winning author and illustrator of many children’s books, including Amanda Peet and Andrea Troyer’s Dear Santa, Love, Rachel Rosenstein; Julie Andrews’s The Very Fairy Princess series; and Susan Marie Swanson’s The First Thing My Mama Told Me, which was a 2003 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book. She lives in Paris, France. To learn more, visit christinedavenier.com.