Jason Carter Eaton is a writer and screenwriter whose credits include Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, as well as many books for children, including the national bestseller How to Train a Train. Mike Petrik is an animator by day and an illustrator of books, magazines, and wonderfully scary doodles by night. He's contributed to such publications as Highlights for Children and High Five, and his debut author-illustrator book was Sammy's Spooktacular Halloween. He lives with his wife and three amazing children in Oak Lawn, Illinois.

Bernard is mystified as to why everyone he encounters reacts strangely towards him, but he soon realizes that his facial expressions, more specifically his eyebrows, are conveying emotions he does not feel, leaving Bernard to wonder if he is doomed to live a life with horrendous brows.