CYNTHIA RYLANT is the acclaimed author of more than eighty books for young people, and her novel Missing May received the Newbery Medal. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
ARTHUR HOWARD is the illustrator of the Bubba and Beau series by Kathi Appelt. He has also written and illustrated four picture books of his own: Serious Trouble, Hoodwinked, When I Was Five, and Cosmo Zooms. He lives in New York City.