Melissa Dalton Martinez wrote this Children's Picture Book Edition of "The Story of Doctor Dolittle." Melissa has worked in different areas of the entertainment industry since 1998, including television, film, music, and books. Today she is the executive producer and host of the hit online show, The Book Break, and enjoys reading, writing, and spending time with her family.

Melissa is the mother of three imaginative children ages eleven, nine, and six. As a lover of books, she started buying and reading massive amounts of children's books from the first day she found out she was pregnant with her oldest child.

Today, Melissa still buys, and reads with her children, huge amounts of children's books. Her talented husband, Gama Ray Martinez, contributes to this growing children's book library as an author of more than 17 books for school-age children.

When they're not reading or writing, the Martinez family can be found enjoying a variety of activities like playing with their Golden Retriever, hiking, swimming (and scuba diving for Melissa and Gama), traveling, playing video games, and watching fun movies (usually in the fantasy or science fiction genre).