Lara Bergen is the author of more than one hundred children's books. She lives in New York City with her husband and two kids--Sydney and Parker.
David Shannon has written and illustrated numerous award winning picture books including
Duck on a Bike, the Caldecott Honor Book
No David!, How I Learned to be a Pirate, and
Good Boy Fergus. He is also one of the collaborative illustrators in Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series. David lives with his wife and his daughter in Los Angeles.
Loren Long illustrated President Barack Obama's
Of Thee I Sing; the newest version of
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper; Madonna's second picture book,
Mr. Peabody's Apples;
Nightsong by Ari Berk; Frank McCourt's
Angela and the Baby Jesus;
Love by Matt de la Peña; and
If I Was the Sunshine by Julie Fogliano. He also wrote and illustrated the Otis series and was part of the Design Garage for Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series. Loren's work has appeared in
Time,
Sports Illustrated,
Forbes,
The Wall Street Journal, and
The Atlantic. He lives with his wife and two sons in Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit him at LorenLong.com.
David Gordon has done visual development for numerous production companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar, including
Toy Story;
Monsters, Inc.;
A Bug's Life;
Cars; BlueSky's
Robots; and Nickelodeon's
Spongebob Squarepants. He's also written and illustrated several picture books, among them
Hansel and Diesel,
The Three Little Rigs,
The Ugly Truckling, and
Smitten. He's one of the illustrators of Jon Scieszka's fifty-two-book,
New York Times bestselling series, Trucktown. Visit him at IllustratorRanch.com.
