Hold tight to your saddle horn . . . Gona knows there's so much more to life on the farm than chores-it's a magical world where she can become anything she wants, even a Pony Express rider racing across the dangerous plains of the Wild West to deliver the mail. That is, if she can get her brother Scott to play along. Follow Gona on her daring horseback adventure in the first installment of Go, Gona, Go! Carla Crane Osborne grew up under the barnyard light on her family's farm in rural southern Idaho, where she spent countless hours helping tend cattle and sheep, riding horses, and having grand adventures exploring the landscape. Every day she was excited to learn and work on the farm, which has been in her family for four generations. Carla wrote Pony Express to bring to life a snapshot of the past so that children today can experience a sliver of the magic she knew growing up on a farm with all of its wonders. Since she left the farm for college, Carla has had many more adventures, including working for a traveling theater group as a dancer, singer, and actress. Carla has traveled all over the world, but she still calls Idaho home. She and her husband live on fifteen acres she calls her "little farm," where she spends much of her time outside, pasturing her horses, donkey, and sheep. She still visits the family farm and loves to tell stories of her childhood there to her four children and six grandchildren. Carla is also the author of Under the Barnyard Light, which has won a silver IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. Michael Dennis Crane grew up on a small family farm in southeastern Idaho, the same farm his aunt Carla grew up on, where he helped feed the cows, rode horses, and worked the fields with his siblings and cousins. Walking through the fields, climbing haystacks, and operating the farm machinery fueled Michael's imagination. There was magic all around on the farm: pitchforks became swords, haystacks were towering castles, and the machinery transformed into mythic monsters to slay. The seeds of hard work, determination, and the importance of family were sown early in his life thanks to his time spent on the farm. Michael graduated from Idaho State University in 2014 before moving to Meridian, Idaho, where he currently lives with a family of his own. Michael enjoys superheroes, ghost stories, video games, and art. Art is a big part of Michael's life and he loves to cultivate and improve his talents daily.