Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic is the author of
The End of Something Wonderful: A Practical Guide to a Backyard Funeral and the middle-grade novel
The League of Picky Eaters. She has been a contributor to the
New York Times Motherlode blog,
The Washington Post,
Entertainment Weekly, CNN's
Eatocracy,
The Atlantic Wire, and more. Stephanie lives in the Bay Area, and she invites you to visit her at stephanielucianovic.com or on Instagram and Twitter @grubreport.
Vashti Harrison is the
New York Times bestselling creator of
Big, which was awarded the 2024 Caldecott Medal, a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor, in addition to being a National Book Award finalist. Vashti is also the #1
New York Times bestselling creator of
Little Leaders,
Little Dreamers, and
Little Legends, and the illustrator of Lupita Nyong'o's
Sulwe (for which she received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor), Matthew A. Cherry's
Hair Love, Andrea Beaty's
I Love You Like Yellow, and Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic's
Hello, Star, among others. A two-time recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, Vashti lives in Brooklyn, New York, and invites you to visit her online @vashtiharrison or at vashtiharrison.com.
