Doretta Groenendyk, a painter, writer and teacher, lives with her husband and three children in the Annapolis Valley, NS. Doretta is the illustrator of the children's book Bound Beans and Burn and the author and illustrator of Hockey Morning, Noon and Night, I'm Drawing a Picture, I'm Writing a Story, as well as Snow for Christmas, and Thank You for My Bed, both of which have been shortlisted for the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration.