Jabari Asim is an associate professor of writing at Emerson College and a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. He has written for the
Washington Post and is the editor of the NCAAP magazine,
The Crisis. He's also the author of children's books, including
Fifty Cents and a Dream,
Girl of Mine, and
Boy of Mine. He lives in Boston, with his wife and five children.
New York Times bestselling illustrator
LeUyen Pham has created over ninety books for children, including The Princess in Black series with Shannon and Dean Hale,
Freckleface Strawberry with Julianne Moore, her own
The Bear Who Wasn't There, and
Sheep 101 by Richard T. Morris.