Tanya Lee Stone has loved writ­ing about women push­ing bound­aries in books such as Eliz­a­beth Leads the Way, Who Says Women Can’t Be Doc­tors?, The House That Jane Built, Who Says Women Can’t Be Com­put­er Pro­gram­mers?, and Pass Go and Col­lect $200. Her work has received numer­ous acco­lades, includ­ing a Robert F. Sib­ert Medal, an NAACP Image Award, NCTE Orbis Pic­tus Hon­ors, a Bank Street Col­lege Flo­ra Stieglitz Straus Award, a Boston Globe – Horn Book Hon­or, and a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She lives in Burling­ton, Ver­mont. Stone has a PhD in cre­ative writ­ing and runs the writ­ing pro­gram at Cham­plain Col­lege. She invites you to vis­it her online at tanya​s​tone​.com.