JERRY PINKNEY is the illustrator of more than a hundred books for children. In 2010, Jerry won the prestigious Caldecott Medal for The Lion and the Mouse. His other books include The Talking Eggs, John Henry, Sam and the Tigers, and Noah's Ark. A five-time winner of both the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award, he has been recognized with numerous other honors, taught illustration and conducted workshops at universities across the country, and created art for the United States Postal Service's Black Heritage stamps. 

JERRY PINKNEY

SARAH WEEKS has written more than fifty picture books and novels for children and young adults including the best selling novel, So B. It. Two of her most recent contributions ainclude Mac and Cheese (a Harper I CAN READ book) and Pie, a novel recently published by Scholastic.  In addition to writing, Sarah is an adjunct faculty member in the prestigious Writing Program at the New School University in New York City and a founding member of ART, a traveling troupe of authors who perform reader's theatre at conventions and conferences across the country.

SARAH WEEKS

DAVID SHANNON is the author and/or illustrator of a bazillion popular and highly acclaimed picture books including A Bad Case of Stripes, Duck on a Bike, Good Boy, Fergus!, How I became a Pirate, and No, David!, which won the Caldecott Honor in 1999. His editorial illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, Time Magazine and The Rolling Stone. David lives in southern California with his family and Fergus, the dog.

DAVID SHANNON

TOM ANGLEBERGER is the author of Darth Paper Strikes Back, the brand new companion to his wildly popular The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. Tom lives in Virginia with his wife, Cece Bell, where he still works as a columnist for the Roanoke Times, (when he’s not busy inventing new paper Star Wars characters....)

TOM ANGLEBERGER

PATRICIA MACLACHLAN is the celebrated author of many timeless books for young
readers, including Sarah, Plain and Tall, winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, and its
companions, Skylark and Caleb’s Story. Her other novels include Seven Kisses in a Row, Word After Word After Word, and Arthur, For the Very First Time.

She is also the author of many popular picture books, including All the Places to Love, What You Know First, Through Grandpa’s Eye’s, and The True Gift: A Christmas Story.

Patricia lives
with her husband and two border terriers in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.

PATRICIA MACLACHLAN

PAUL ZELINSKY