Kari-Lynn Winters is an author, poet, and performer. With over sixteen picture and poetry books published, she has won the British Columbia Book Prize silver medal twice, and been nominated numerous times for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize and the Chocolate Lily Awards. Bad Pirate won the Rainforest of Reading Award. Kari-Lynn loves being in the classroom and now teaches drama in education at Brock University. She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her most recent picture book is On the Line.

François Thisdale's work blends traditional drawing and painting with digital imagery. He is the illustrator of Missing Nimama, which won the TD Canadian Children's Book Award. The Stamp Collector is on the IBBY Honor List, and That Squeak was honor book for the IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award. His New York Times-recommended title Bon Voyage, Mister Rodriguez was nominated for the same award. François lives in Montreal, Quebec.