Biographical note

Pete Oswald is a painter, illustrator, and filmmaker. He is the illustrator of the first three books in the Did You Know? series. Pete worked as a character designer and concept artist on the popular films Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Hotel Transylvania. His short film The Story of Walls earned him an Annie Award nomination. He was the production designer of The Angry Birds Movie. Pete lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife and two sons. You can visit him online at peteoswald.tumblr.com. Justin K. Thompson is an Emmy Award-winning artist with over twenty years of experience in the motion picture and television industries. He has worked for some of the biggest names in entertainment, including DreamWorks, Lucasfilm, Paramount, Sony, the Cartoon Network, the Jim Henson Company, Walt Disney, and Warner Bros. Justin is also the illustrator of Faraway Fox by Jolene Thompson. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their two children and two dogs. Mingo the Flamingo is his first (co-created) original author-illustrator work. You can visit him online at shinypinkbottle.tumblr.com.