Tammi Sauer is the author of many picture books, including But the Bear Came Back, Caring for Your Lion, Chicken Dance, Cowboy Camp, Your Alien (which earned starred reviews in both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly), and Your Alien Returns (all Sterling).

She is an active blogger (tammisauer.com) and highly involved in the children's writer community. Tammi lives in OK with her husband and their two children. Her local indie bookstore, Best of Books, in Edmond, OK, has named July 9th Tammi Sauer Day.

Troy Cummings is an author and illustrator of children's books. His works include Giddy-Up, Daddy! and The Notebook of Doom series.

His illustrations have also appeared in animated backdrops for an opera, iPad pop-up books, and a cookbook for dogs, as well as in newspapers, magazines, and greeting cards. He lives in Greencastle, Indiana.