Peter Mandel (http://www.petermandel.net) is an adventure travel journalist for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and others, and the author of ten children’s books. Mandel’s books have come out from Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Penguin, Scholastic, Henry Holt, and Hyperion, and have been featured in USA Today, and on ABC’s “The Home Show.” His titles have been part of exhibits at the Museum of Natural History in New York, at the Smithsonian, and at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Danish. Mandel’s work is syndicated through Featurewell.com. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife, Kathy, and cats, Sam and Betty. Mandel grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Middlebury College and Brown University.
