Galia Bernstein loves animals and has been studying and drawing them since she was two years old. She is the bestselling author of three picture books, which have been published in fifteen languages, and the illustrator of many more. Galia Bernstein lives in Brooklyn, New York, with a very small dog and a large cat.

Kate Banks has written many books for children, among them Max's Words; And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; and The Night Worker, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Banks attended Wellesley College and received her master's in history at Columbia University. She lived in Rome for eight years but now lives in the South of France with her husband and two sons. Visit her at katebanksbooks.com.