Barry Keating is a writer who penned several Muppet Babies books: Baby Rowlf Finds the Clunker, Kermit the Hermit, Baby Fozzie on Cloud Nine, and Baby Piggy's Mermaid Tale. Keating also penned script and lyrics for the Muppet Babies stage show Magic Box and wrote some of the "Kermit's Tale" animal stories for Jim Henson's Bedtime Stories.