Dandi Daley Mackall loves God, children, words, and animals. Her nearly 500 books for children and grown-ups have sold more than four million copies worldwide. She won the ECPA Christian Book Award for Best ChildrenтАЩs Book 2015 and multiple MomтАЩs Choice Awards, as well as ALA Best Book, NY Public Library Top Pick, ChildrenтАЩs Book Council Award of Excellence, and the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to ChildrenтАЩs Literature. Her novel My BoyfriendsтАЩ Dogs is now a Hallmark Movie. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her family, including horses, dogs, cats, and an occasional squirrel, deer, or raccoon.