Hilary Horder Hippely

Hilary Horder Hippely grew up on an island in Washington State. She attended Cornell University, and has advanced degrees in English Literature from the University of Washington and an AA in Early Childhood Education. Her previous picture books include The Crimson Ribbon, A Song for Lena, Adventure on Klickitat Island, and Rain or Shine. She lives in Seattle with her husband, near their seven grown children and their families.

Matt James has won many prestigious awards, including the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the New Mexico Book Award and the Governor General's Award for Illustration. He illustrated When the Moon Comes by Paul Harbridge and The Stone Thrower by Jael Ealey Richardson. His author-illustrator debut, The Funeral, was named a New York Times and New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book. As a child, Matt liked to trace comics and pretend that tennis racquets were guitars. Now he lives in Toronto and behaves more like a grown up.