Eulalie Osgood Grover was born in Mantorville, Minnesota. She authored over twenty books for children and was the sister of educator and publisher Edwin Osgood Grover. She passed away in 1958.

Frederick Richardson was an American illustrator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best remembered for his illustrations of works by L. Frank Baum, Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, an abundant amount of work for the publisher P.F. Volland including her timeless, illustrative masterwork Mother Goose. He passed away in 1937.