Mark Shulman has been a camp counselor, a radio announcer, a maitre d' in a fancy restaurant, a New York City tour guide, and a creative advertising guy. He's written many books about many things ---sharks, storms, robots, palindromes, anagrams, gorillas, dodo birds, Star Wars, Ben Franklin, how to hide stuff, how to voodoo your enemies, and how to make a video from start to finish. He's written picture books for Oscar de la Hoya (the boxer) and Shamu (the whale). Mark went to one of those high schools with metal detectors and armed guards, he walked three miles every day in the snow, and he tells this to everyone. Especially his kids.