Bill Waiser is one of Canada's foremost historians.? For more than three decades, he was a history professor at the?University of Saskatchewan.? He is now a full-time writer and public speaker. Bill has published nineteen books, in addition to plying his trade in radio, television, and print media.? He's known for an engaging, popular style that draws on the power of stories.? His most recent book,?In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation, was launched?at the One Arrow First Nation's community powwow at the request of the Elders. Leanne Franson spent her childhood winters in Regina and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, building snow forts while her dad watched hockey games on tv. She was a really bad skater -- but she could draw really well! In 1991, after she finished her BFA in Montreal, she started illustrating books. Leanne is fluently bilingual and has worked on books in English and French, illustrating in total over 100 picture books, chapter books, and textbooks. She returned to Saskatchewan in 2012 with her teenage son Benn, where she draws and makes ceramics in her acreage studio.