Legendary singer
Roberta Flack is known for her number one singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song," "Feel Like Makin' Love," and "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You," two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway. She is the recipient of thirteen Grammy nominations, four of which she won, as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Tonya Bolden is the award-winning author/co-author/editor of more than two dozen books for young people. They include
Finding Family, which was a
Kirkus Reviews and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year;
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book;
MLK: Journey of a King, winner of a National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Award; and
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty, an ALSC Notable Children's Book and CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. Tonya also received the Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC's Nonfiction Award. A Princeton University magna cum laude baccalaureate with a master's degree from Columbia University, Tonya lives in NYC.
Hayden Goodman is a painter and children's book illustrator born and raised in the wilderness of Western Massachusetts. Her clients include the
New Yorker, the
New York Times, MIT, and
Garden & Gun. The Green Piano is her debut picture book.