【作者简介】E·L·柯尼斯伯格,美国儿童文学作家。1930年出生于美国纽约,在宾夕法尼亚州的一个小镇长大。她虽然从小喜爱阅读,但在上大学时却选择了主修化学,毕业后成为一名化学教师。后来,她慢慢地发觉自己感兴趣的是学生的脑子里在想些什么,而不是实验室里的瓶瓶罐罐,于是开始儿童文学创作。与此同时,她发现自己对绘画产生了浓厚的兴趣,于是在开始写作后,也尝试着自己画插图。她 [About the author] EL Koenigsberg, American children’s literature writer. Born in 1930 in New York, USA, grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania. Although her childhood love to read, but in college, she chose to major in chemistry, after graduation to become a chemistry teacher. Later, she slowly found out she was interested in what was thinking in the minds of the students, rather than the bottles and jars in the laboratory, then began children’s literature. In the meantime, she found herself deeply interested in painting, so after she started writing, she also tried to draw her own illustrations. she was