Eric A. Kimmel has written many books for children and lives in Portland, Oregon. Leonard Everett Fisher has written and/or illustrated more than two hundred children's books in a career that has spanned fifty years. He lives in Westport, Connecticut. more

Leyla Torres is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including Saturday Sancocho. She lives in Arlington, Vermont. more

ROBIN CRUISE has previously written middle grade novels. This is her first picture book. She lives in San Diego, California.  STACEY DRESSEN-MCQUEEN’s Boxes for Katje, written by Candace Fleming, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book.She lives in Portland, Oregon. more

LISSETTE NORMAN lives in New York City. This is her firstbook. FRANK MORRISON, the recipient of the Coretta ScottKing /John Steptoe New Illustrator Award for Jazzy Miz Mozettaby Brenda C. Roberts, lives in Hampton, Georgia. more

Leyla Torres is the author and illustrator of Subway Sparrow, among other titles. Originally from Bogota, Colombia, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York. more

Leyla Torres is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including Saturday Sancocho/El sancocho del sabado. She lives in Arlington, Vermont. more

DEBBI CHOCOLATE is the author of more than twenty picture books, including The Piano Man, which received the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, and Talk, Talk: An Ashanti Legend, winner of the Parents’ Choice Award. She lives outside Chicago with her family.... more

Katie Sciurba is a graduate of the MFA program in writing for children at The New School. She currently lives in New York City, where she is pursuing a PhD in English education at New York University. This is her first book. Edel Rodriguez was born in Havana, Cuba. He is... more

Marisa Montes has written several books for young readers, including Juan Bobo Goes to Work, which won a Pura Belpré Honor. She lives in northern California.Yuyi Morales is an author/illustrator whose books have won the Pura Belpré Award, the Christopher Award, and the Jane... more

Born and raised in Mexico, YUYI MORALES has been a radio producer and children’s book creator since coming to the United States. Her books have won numerous awards and honors (including the Pura Belpré Award, the Christopher Award, and the James Addams Award). LITTLE NIGHT,... more

Yuyi Morales was born in Xalpa, Mexico in 1968. She spent the first twenty-five years of her life in Mexico before moving to the United States with her husband and son. In 1997 she created a weekly children's radio program for KP of San Francisco which ran for three years.... more

Leyla Torres is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including Saturday Sancocho/El sancocho del sabado. She lives in Arlington, Vermont. more

Leyla TorresI have always loved to paint and to read. When I was a young child growing up in Bogotá, Colombia, my parents ran an elementary school that exposed me to all kinds of wonderful books. One day my mother gave me a small easel and a box of paints. My first painting... more