Janet Lawler resides in Farmington, Connecticut, USA. Her books have appeared in the Scholastic Book Clubs, the Children's Book of the Month Club, and in translation editions that include Spanish, Japanese, Hebrew, French, and Korean. Her nonfiction picture book, Ocean Counting (National Geographic) was named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for 2014 by the National Science Teachers' Association. Visit her website at http: //www.janetlawler.com/.

Yevgeniya Yeretskaya is a Ukrainian-born artist who specializes in paper creations. She is an award-winning illustrator, designer and paper engineer, recognized for her work with pop-up books and greeting cards. Yevgeniya has a BFA in Communications Design with focus in Illustration from Pratt Institute in New York and has dedicated her career to storytelling through movable books that charm and engage the imagination of children and those young at heart.