Emily Gladding is a Youth Services Librarian with Vaughan Public Libraries who loves getting lost in the junior fiction collection. She studied Human Geography at Brock University and spent a brief time in a sales job that just wasnt exciting. After months of ignoring her mothers advice who is a retired Childrens Librarian she went Western for her MLIS and hasnt looked back since. She loves picture books featuring bears and/or snow and lives in Toronto with her husband and French Bulldog puppy.