Beth Ferry is the author of many picture books including the New York Times bestseller Stick and Stone, The Scarecrow, an Indie Next List Pick, Swashby and the Sea, which Booklist called "an exceptionally satisfying picture book" in a starred review, and Tea Time. She has celebrated all but four of her birthdays in New Jersey where she lives with her family by the beach.

Lori Nichols has written and illustrated numerous books, including The Light in Me Sees the Light in You and the award-winning Maple and Willow series, which have been picked for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and have been called "Best Of" books by the Children's Book Council and Bank Street College. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband.