Cari Best

Cari Best has written many award-winning picture books, including Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; and My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay, described by the New York Times as "refreshing" and "exciting." She has received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writers Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for Outstanding Picture Book text, the Amelia Bloomer Award, and the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award. Cari lives in Connecticut.

Rashin Kheiriyeh is the author and/or illustrator of over eighty children's books around the world. Her recent book, The Shape of Home, received three starred reviews and was praised by the New York Times as "a joyful, wildly imaginative book." She received a PhD in illustration and an MFA in graphic design from Alzahra University in Tehran, and was named a Maurice Sendak Fellow in 2017. Born in Khorramshahr, Iran, Rashin now lives in Washington, DC.