VAUNDA MICHEAUX NELSON is the author of many beginning readers and award-winning books for children, including
Almost to Freedom, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book. She was the winner of the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award and Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal. She works as a librarian in New Mexico where she lives with her husband.
DEREK ANDERSON wrote his first story in second grade and hasn't stopped writing or drawing since. He is the illustrator of
Ready? Set. Raymond! and he is also known for the
Hot Rod Hamster books,
Ten Hungry Pigs, and the illustrations in
Little Quack, which was a
New York Times best-seller. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.