Hubley, Faith: - Faith Hubley was a painter and filmmaker, renowned for her experimental animation and independent sensibility in children's entertainment. After leaving a Hollywood career behind in the mid-1950s, she and her husband John Hubley devoted themselves to a groundbreaking practice of freely expressionistic filmmaking. In addition to more than fifty iconic films, Hubley created five renowned books for children, several in collaboration with Elizabeth Swados. She died in 2001.

Swados, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Swados was a playwright, director, composer, and author. A pioneer of the innovative New York theater scene of the 1970s, her pieces were performed on Broadway and the world over, and she was the recipient of Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, Guggenheim and Ford Fellowships, and numerous other honors. She was the author of fifteen books, nine of them for children. She died in 2016.