Leslie Kimmelman has long been associated with Sesame Workshop both as a writer and editor. She is the author of more than three dozen children's books, including The Little Red Hen and the Passover Matzah and Write On, Irving Berlin!, which were both Sydney Taylor Notable Books, and the Sydney Taylor Honor Book Everybody Says Shalom. She lives in the New York City area.

Barbara Bakos grew up in a suburb of Budapest next to a little forest. She graduated as an animation director at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest and began working as an art director and designer for a television series and some short films, though she always knew she wanted to spend more time as an illustrator. She now lives between England and Hungary, and misses her big ginger cat when she is not with her, along with her Johnny Cash discs.