JEANETTE WINTER is the author and illustrator of many notable books for children, including Beatrix and September Roses, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. She lives in New York City. more

JANICE HARRINGTON’s Going North, for which she received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, was a Top of the List Booklist Editors’ Choice. She lives in Champaign, Illinois. SHELLEY JACKSON is the author-illustrator of several picture books and author of adult fiction.... more

Margot Theis Raven's picture books include Angels in the Dust, which was an IRA Teachers' Choice. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina. E. B. Lewis's many picture books include Talkin' About Bessie by Nikki Grimes, which received the Coretta Scott King Award. He lives in... more

Jeanette Winter is the author and illustrator of many notable books for children, including Beatrix: Various Episodes from the Life of Beatrix Potter and Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World, a Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book and a New York Times Book Review Notable... more

EMILY ARNOLD MCCULLY has written and illustrated many children’s books, including Mirette on the High Wire, a Caldecott Medal Book, Marvelous Mattie, and Squirrel and John Muir, an NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. She divides her time between New... more

Ann Cameron is the author of many books for children, including The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods, a National Book Award finalist. She lives in Guatemala, Central America. Lis Toft has illustrated two other books by Ann Cameron – Gloria’s Way and More Stories Huey Tells.... more

Janice N. Harrington is a children's librarian and professional storyteller. This is her first children's book. She lives in Champaign, Illinois. Jerome Lagarrigue received the Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award for New Talent for his illustrations for Freedom Summer... more

Ethel Footman Smothers lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. John Holyfield lives in Fairfax Station, Virginia. more

Niki Daly is the author and illustrator of many picture books, including Old Bob's Brown Bear, What's Cooking, Jamela?, and Once Upon a Time. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa. more

Niki Daly is the author and illustrator of many picture books, including two earlier titles starring Jamela, What's Cooking, Jamela? and Jamela's Dress, an ALA Notable Book. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa. more

Niki Daly is the creator of many acclaimed picture books, including Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with his wife, the illustrator Jude Daly. more

NIKI DALY, a Hans Christian Andersen Award nominee, has written and illustrated many acclaimed picture books, including three previous tales about Jamela and her family, one of which – Jamela’s Dress – was an ALA Notable Book. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa. more

MELANIE TURNER-DENSTAEDT (1963–2007) lived in Upland, California, with her husband and five children. This was her first book. FRANK MORRISON has illustrated many books, including Jazzy Miz Mozetta by Brenda C. Roberts, for which he received the Coretta Scott King / John... more

Brenda C. Roberts lives in Los Angeles, California, and this is her second book for children. Frank Morrison lives in New Jersey. more

Amy MacDonald's books include Quentin Fenton Herter III and Rachel Fister's Blister, which appeared on Fanfare, The Horn Book's Honor List. She lives in Falmouth, Maine. Emily Lisker has illustrated numerous books. She lives in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. more

Karen English is the author of many books for children, including the novel Francie, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She lives in Richmond, California. Amy June Bates has illustrated more than twenty books. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. more