Deborah Hopkinson is the author of numerous award-winning children's books, including
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, winner of the International Literacy Association Award;
Girl Wonder, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award; and
Apples to Oregon, a Junior Library Guild Selection. She received the 2003 Washington State Book Award for
Under the Quilt of Night. She lives in Oregon. Visit her online at DeborahHopkinson.com.
Terry Widener is an award-winning illustrator whose picture books include
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David A. Adler, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book, and
America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle, also by David A. Adler, a Junior Library Guild Selection. He is also the illustrator of
Peg and the Whale by Kenneth Oppel and
If the Shoe Fit by Gary Soto. Mr. Widener lives with his wife and three children in McKinney, Texas.