Deborah Wiles

Deborah Wiles is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including the beloved Love, Ruby Lavender and 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. she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bao Luu dreamed of becoming an artist as a child, and today his work as an illustrator focuses on bright, playful colors and unique textures. He is the illustrator of Simple Thanks written by Deborah Wiles and The Seed of Compassion written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Bao Luu was born and raised in Vietnam and currently lives near Houston, Texas.