Jennifer Armstrong is the author of numerous award-winning picture books and novels. Her works include Hugh Can Do, Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat, The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan (a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book), and Black-Eyed Susan. Her first novel, Steal Away, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Notable book, and a Golden Kite Honor book. Other titles include Pockets, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, Magnus at the Fire, Photo by Brady, and Once Upon a Banana. She lives in New York state.

Albert Lorenz is an artist/illustrator/author who has worked freelance for more than thirty years in conjunction with teaching illustration at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He is a native New Yorker always trying to expand his horizons. He began as an architectural illustrator and moved on to illustrating for advertising agencies, newspapers, and children’s books. His titles include The True Story Behind Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Renovated Fairy Tales.