A leading nonfiction writer and author of Snakes! examines the lives and habitats of the world's largest reptiles--alligators and crocodiles--which are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs.

Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator," according to the Washington Post. Winner of the 2010 Regina Award, she has written and illustrated more than fifty books for Holiday House. She lives in Corinth, Vermont.