Kalli Dakosis a children's poet and teacher. She gives teacher workshops and visits schools across the United States and Canada to talk to students. She has written many collections of school poems that include five ILA-CBC Children's Choice Selections. She lives in splits her time between Ottawa, Canada, and Ogdensburg, NY.

G. Brian Karas is the prolific, versatile, and award-winning illustrator of many books for children, including A Poem in Your Pocket, How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?, and The Apple Orchard Riddle. He also illustrated A Hat for Mrs. Goldman by Michelle Edwards; Neville by Norton Juster; Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming, which received four starred reviews; Are You Going to Be Good? by Cari Best, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; and Home on the Bayou, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.