The Snow Blew Inn

As Emma waits with excitement for her cousin Abby to arrive for a sleepover, a snowstorm brings so many visitors to her family's inn that she and her mother give up their own rooms, and still Abby has not appeared.

Dian Curtis Regan is the author of many books for young readers.

In 1993, she was named "Member of the Year" by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators."

She has been inducted into the Oklahoma Professional Writers' Hall of Fame, and has received a "Distinguished Medal of Service in Children's Literature" from the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers.

Dian was born in Colorado Springs and lived in Colorado for many years. 

After graduating from the University of Colorado in Boulder, she taught school in Denver until deciding to "take one year off to write." More than a year has passed and she is still writing full time.

Dian has lived in Texas, Oklahoma, and Venezuela.  Presently, she lives in Wichita, Kansas. www.diancurtisregan.com.


Doug Cushman was born in Springfield, Ohio and moved to Connecticut with his family when he was 15 years old. While in high school he created comic books lampooning his teachers, selling them to his classmates for a nickel a piece.

Since 1978, he has illustrated and/or written over 100 books for children and collected a number of honors including a Reuben Award for Book Illustration from the National Cartoonists Society, New York Times Children's Books Best Sellers, and the New York Public Library's Best 100 Books of 2000. He enjoys hiking, kayaking and cooking (and eating!) as he splits his time between Northern California and Paris, France.