Ben Clanton is the New York Times bestselling author and Eisner Award-winning creator of the Narwhal and Jelly series. Some of his other titles include Vote for Me! ; Rot, the Cutest in the World! ; It Came in the Mail ; and the Tater Tales books. Ben has also collaborated on projects such as Ploof and Paint with Ploof with Andy Chou Musser and Papilio with Corey R. Tabor and Andy Chou Musser. Ben makes books, comics, and puns of other stuff in Seattle, Washington. Cassandra Federman grew up reading comic books, playing with action figures, and drawing superheroes. Over the course of her life she has been many things - a hand model, a wrestler, a manatee rescuer, an actor, and a mystic wood elf - but her favorite so far has been author/illustrator. Cassandra's previous books include This Is a Sea Cow and This Is a Seahorse , which received the ILA Children's and Young Adult Book Award, and the early middle-grade graphic novel Story Spinners .