Lola M Schaefer

Lola M. Schaefer is the author of many award-winning books for children, including An Island Grows; What's Up, What's Down?; and Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed, an NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts; and What's Up, What's Down? She lives with her husband, Ted, in the mountains of north Georgia, where she has her very own butterfly garden bursting with activity. Lola invites you to visit her online at lolaschaefer.com.

Gabi Swiatkowska is the illustrator of many acclaimed books for children, including Mary Cassatt: Extraordinary Impressionist Painter, which was named a CBC-NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book, as well as My Name Is Yoon, an ALA Notable Book for which she received the Ezra Jack Keats Award. Gabi lives in France, where she spies on the butterflies in her garden. She makes little notes with drawings about their daily goings-on. And she likes to grow plants that are hospitable to butterflies.