Julie Fogliano

Julie Fogliano is the New York Times bestselling author of And Then It's Spring, If I Was the Sunshine, Just in Case You Want to Fly, and I Don't Care. Recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats award, her books have been translated into more than ten languages and received multiple starred reviews. Booklist perhaps put it best when they said that Julie "has a knack for capturing the emotional tenor of very specific little kid experiences," and she has continued to do so here. Now more than ever kids (and all of us) need the soft and hopeful encouragement of her words.

Cátia Chien is an award-winning children's book illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her first book, The Sea Serpent and Me by Dashka Slater, won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators. She followed it with A Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz, an ALA Notable Book and recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award. Her book The Bear and the Moon, written by Matthew Burgess, received multiple starred reviews and won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators' Original Art Show, as well as the Golden Kite Award. She lives in New York City.