This nonfiction illustrated book for middle-grade readers explores how and why people have had fun over the course of human history.

Maria Birmingham has worked in the children's publishing industry for over 25 years. She is the award-winning author of several books for young people, including Snooze-O-Rama: The Strange Ways That Animals Sleep and A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars. She lives in Brampton, Ontario, with her family.

Katy Dockrill is a Toronto-based illustrator. An honours graduate from the Ontario College of Art and Design, she brings the simplest drawings to life with her fresh, cheerful and playfully detailed brush-and-ink work, a style her international and local clients expect and love. She has illustrated such books as Women Win the Vote! 19 for the 19th Amendment, A Voice for the Spirit Bears: How One Boy Inspired Millions to Save a Rare Animal and City of Water.