Jeff Lantos

Jeff Lantos was a fifth-grade teacher in Pacific Palisades, California, where he often wrote history-based musicals for his students to perform. He still often works with schoolkids and history-based productions. A UCLA study showed that his students' retention of history is higher than their peers. He was nominated for a 2015 Excellence in Theatre Education Award from the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a degree from Brown University and has worked producing musicals on...See more

Jeff Lantos was a fifth-grade teacher in Pacific Palisades, California, where he often wrote history-based musicals for his students to perform. He still often works with schoolkids and history-based productions. A UCLA study showed that his students' retention of history is higher than their peers. He was nominated for a 2015 Excellence in Theatre Education Award from the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a degree from Brown University and has worked producing musicals on Broadway. Alan Marks began his career illustrating for magazines and newspapers in England. His first children's book Storm , written by Kevin Crossley Holland, won the Carnegie Medal. He is also the illustrator of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book A Mother's Journey , as well as Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle , Planet Zoo , The Spirit of the Forest , and more. Alan lives in an old house in the Kent countryside with his wife and two daughters. ... See less