KEVIN SYLVESTER is the author/illustrator of more than thirty books, including the award-winning Apartment 713, the MiNRS trilogy, the Neil Flambé Capers, The Almost Epic Squad: Mucus Mayhem, and the Hockey Super Six series. Sylvester has won awards from across Canada, among them the Silver Birch Award and the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award. He co-wrote, with Basil Sylvester, the Governor General’s Award–shortlisted The Fabulous Zed Watson! and The Night of the Living Zed. Kevin Sylvester lives in Toronto.