Lindsay Bonilla (Author)
Lindsay Bonilla is a professional storyteller and author whose previous picture books include The Storyteller, Parents' Choice Award winner Polar Bear Island, I Love You with All of My Hearts and The Note Who Faced the Music. She lives with her husband, two wild and creative kids and her dog, Blitzen, in North Canton, Ohio.

Brizida Magro (Illustrator)
Brizida Magro is an illustrator based in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches illustration at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. She also illustrated Gift & Box by Ellen Mayer, Saturday at the Food Pantry by Diane O'Neill and Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Lee Donovan. She loves to experiment with paper collage, gouache, china marker and digital art. Her childhood greatly influenced her current work, which blends together the innocence of vintage children's art, the naiveté of folk art and frolicking adventures through the great outdoors. She enjoys simplicity, whimsy, wee characters and collecting vintage papers. She is passionate about rock climbing, wandering the world and bringing stories to life.