Ashley Belote is the illustrator of Frankenslime and Valenslime by Joy Keller, and the author/illustrator of The Me Tree, A Partridge in the We Tree, Listen Up, Louella, Witch & Wombat, and Don’t Wash Winston. She has a background in traditional animation under the direction of Don Bluth, and her graduate study included a children’s literature and illustration course, the Whole Book Approach, through Simmons University at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.