Beryl Young is the author of several critically acclaimed books for children, including Wishing Star Summer, Charlie: A Home Child’s Life in Canada, Would Someone Please Answer the Parrot!, and Follow the Elephant. In addition to the Chocolate Lily award, which Young won in 2011 for Follow the Elephant, her books have been nominated for several awards, including the Red Cedar (BC), the Red Maple (ON), the Diamond Willow (SK), the Hackmatack Award (Atlantic Canada), the Silver Moonbeam Medal for pre-teen fiction (US), and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award for Canadian Children’s Literature. Born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Young now lives in Vancouver. She has three grown children and four grandchildren.