Karen Leggett Abouraya

KAREN LEGGETT ABOURAYA is the author of Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books, which received the Arab American Book Award and a California Reading Association's Eureka! Book Award honor, along with recognition as a Notable Book for a Global Society. About why she wrote this book, Abouraya says, Reading is such a wonderful way to learn about what's important in other people's lives. She and her husband live in Silver Spring, Maryland. You can find out more about her online at childrenslit.com/2014/11/05/karen-leggett-abouraya.

Susan L. Roth's vibrant mixed-media collage illustrations have appeared in numerous outstanding picture books, including Parrots Over Puerto Rico, winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal; Prairie Dog Song; The Mangrove Tree; and most recently Every Month Is a New Year and Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words. Roth and her husband live in New York. Visit her online at susanlroth.com.