Hilarious Adventures with History!

Adam Mansbach is the author of the bestseller Go the F*ck to Sleep, as well as the children’s version, Seriously, Just Go to Sleep, and Go de Rass to Sleep. He is co-editor of A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing, as well as author of the novels Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, The Dead Run, and The End of the Jews. He has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, the Believer, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in My. . .(Disney-Hyperion). Before the fateful extra credit assignment that started it all, Ike's life was pretty normal. That changes when, in a successful effort to make Claire Wanzandae laugh, Ike mails his homework assignment to Ben Franklin—and he writes back. After Ike has an embarrassing moment of epic proportions in front of Claire involving a playground, non-alcoholic beer, and a lot of kettle corn, Ike decides he needs to find a way to win Claire back. With some help from his new friend, B-Fizzle, can Ike get the girl and make his mark in history?

Alan Zweibel is an original Saturday Night Live” writer whom the New York Times says has “earned a place in the pantheon of American pop culture,” Alan has won multiple Emmy, Writers Guild of America, and TV Critics awards for his work in television, which also includes It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (which he co-created and produced), Monk, PBS’s Great Performances, The Late Show With David Letterman and “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. A frequent guest on all of the late night talk shows, Alan’s theatrical contributions include his collaboration with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award winning play, 700 Sundays, Martin Short’s Broadway hit Fame Becomes Me, the off-Broadway plays Happy, Between Cars, Pine Cone Moment, and Bunny Bunny – Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy which he adapted from his best-selling book. Other books by Alan are the 2006 Thurber Prize winning novel The Other Shulman, the popular children’s book Our Tree Named Steve, North, a collection of short stories and essays titled Clothing Optional, and the novel Lunatics which he co-wrote with Dave Barry. Alan’s humor has also appeared in such diverse publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Op-Ed page, The Huffington Post and MAD Magazine.  He has also penned a best-selling e-book titled From My Bottom Drawer. The co-writer of the screenplays for the films Dragnet, North, and The Story of Us, Alan has received an honorary PhD. from the State University of New York and because of the diversity of his body or work, in 2010 the Writers Guild of America, East gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award. Alan is currently an executive producer on Showtime’s documentary series Inside Comedy starring David Steinberg, is writing and producing a television pilot for IFC, is awaiting a September publication of a forthcoming middle grade novel titled Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain In My Ass (Disney-Hyperion) that he co-wrote with Adam Mansbach, and writing the book for a Broadway musical version of Field of Dreams. And in addition to the late night talk shows, on the TV screen he’s also appeared in episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Law & Order. But the production that Alan is most proud of is the family he’s co-produced with his wife Robin; their children Adam, Lindsay and Sari; and their grandchildren Zachary, Alexis, Jordan and Kylie.

Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize−winning author of more than two dozen books including You Can Date When You're 40. Along with Ridley Pearson, he is the co-author of the Peter and the Starcatchers series and Science Fair. In his latest novel, The Worst Class Trip Ever (Disney-Hyperion), Barry presents a fast-paced tale of a class trip to Washington, D.C. gone very wrong. Told in the voice of eighth-grader Wyatt Palmer, Wyatt, his best friend, Matt, and a few kids from Culver Middle School find themselves in a heap of trouble—not just with their teachers, who have long lost patience with them—but from several mysterious men they first meet on their flight to the nation's capital.  Can these kids stay out of danger and out of the doghouse as they try to save the president from a possible assassination attempt?