Whitney Stewart is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction books for kids--for toddlers to young adult. Her research has taken her to Nepal with Sir Edmund Hillary, to India to interview the Dalai Lama, and to China's Great Wall. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation and lives in New Orleans.

Rocío Alejandro has illustrated several children's books in her homeland of Argentina. In 2017, she won the Tenth International Compostela Prize for Picture Books for her book La Huerta de Simón, which she was also the author of.