Deborah Wiles is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including two National Book Award finalists--
Each Little Bird that Sings and
Revolution. Her first picture book,
Freedom Summer, received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. She is also an NAACP Book Award finalist, E.B. White Award winner, Golden Kite Award winner, Jane Addams Peace Award Finalist, and recipient of a PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. Visit her on the web at deborahwiles.com or follow her on Twitter at @DeborahWiles101
Daniel Miyares is the illustrator of
That is My Dream!, a picture book version of Langston Hughes's "Dream Variation," which received two starred reviews, and more recently,
Night Out. Other picture books include
Float, an ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book of the Year, which The Boston Globe called "a perfect wordless picture book;"
Pardon Me!, which PW declared "Follows in the footsteps of Jon Klassen"; and
Surf's Up by Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander. For his day job, he works at Hallmark Cards. Visit him on the Web at danielmiyares.com or follow him on Twitter at @danielmiyares.
