JEN BRYANT has published poetry, biographies, picture books, and fiction for young readers. Her last picture-book biography collaboration with Melissa Sweet,
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, was a Caldecott Honor Book. Jen lives with her family in southeastern Pennsylvania.
MELISSA SWEET is the Caldecott Honor artist of
A River of Words by Jen Bryant,
The Sleepy Little Alphabet by Judy Sierra, and
Mrs. Harkness and the Panda by Alicia Potter, among others. She is also the author-illustrator of
Balloons Over Broadway, which was awarded a Robert F. Sibert Medal.