Dana Meachen Rau is an author, editor, and illustrator of children's books. She has written more than 100 books for children, many of them nonfiction in subjects including astronomy, history, and geography, as well as numerous biographies. She lives in Burlington, Connecticut, with her husband and two children.
This is a fun book about trying new things and the closeness between extended family. It's an easy book for beginning readers and our girls read took turns reading it to me. They really liked the refrain of "Yahoo for you!"