Deanna F. Cook has written award-winning books for kids, including the best-selling Cooking Class and Baking Class, as well as Farmers Market Create-and-Play Activity Book.

She has been the creative development director at FamilyFun and has worked as an editor at Scholastic, Disney,and Kidstir.com.

Joy Howard is a freelance writer, recipe developer, and food stylist. She writes a regular column about kids and cooking for EatingWell magazine, and her work has appeared in projects for Parents, Burger King, Yankee Candle, Friendly's, and Rizzoli publishing, to name a few. For six years she was the food editor of FamilyFun magazine, where she developed recipes and managed the publication's on-site test kitchen. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband and daughters.