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John Hughes wrote the story and screenplay of Home Alone. He also wrote and directed many popular films for teenagers and adults, including The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller´s Day Off. (You´re going to love them when you get a little older.)

Chris Columbus directed the movie Home Alone. He has also directed many other celebrated family films, including Mrs. Doubtfire and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer´s Stone.

Kim Smith is the illustrator behind the Quirk Books Pop Classics series, including Home Alone (Quirk Books, 2015), The X-Files: Earth Children Are Weird (Quirk Books, 2017), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Quirk Books, 2017), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Quirk Books, 2018) She has illustrated several other children´s books, including Over the River & Through the Wood: A Holiday Adventure (Sterling, 2015) and The Great Puppy Invasion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). Kim lives in Calgary, Alberta, with her dog, Whisky, and husband, Eric. Visit her online at kimillustration.com.

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