Jacqueline Jules is the author of 50 books for young readers including four Sydney Taylor Honor Award winners, Sarah Laughs, Benjamin and the Silver Godlet, Never Say a Mean Word Again, and Drop by Drop: A Story of Rabbi Akiva. Her books The Hardest Word and Never Say a Mean Word Again were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. She is also the author of Picnic at Camp Shalom, What a Way to Start a New Year, Goodnight Sh'ma, and Once Upon a Shabbos. She lives in Long Island, New York.