Anthony DeStefano is the bestselling author of over twenty-five Christian books for adults and children. His books have been published in eighteen different countries and twelve different languages. A native New Yorker, Anthony attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, where his English teacher, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, sparked his interest in becoming a children's book author. In fact, Anthony wrote his first picture book, Little Star, as an assignment for one of McCourt's writing classes. Three decades later it was finally published and became a bestseller. Anthony lives in New Jersey with his wife, Jordan.

Louise A. Ellis is an illustrator whose love of painting began as a child making a little book of birds using feathers from her grandma's feather duster. Louise lives and works from her studio in East Yorkshire, UK, with her little cat Penny, who is always by her side.