Alexandra Navarre Davis was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana and currently resides in New Orleans with her family. She received two undergraduate degrees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Juris Doctor from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. She practices employment law and is an adjunct professor of law at Tulane Law School. Alexandra has always had a love of literature and dreamed of writing children's picture books. She is the author of Rise and Shine, It's Mardi Gras Time! and Clyde the Giant Crawfish, also published by Pelican. Herb Leonhard received a BFA in illustration from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He is the illustrator of several other Pelican books, including The Runaway Beignet and The Cajun Fisherman and His Wife. Leonhard lives in Prosser, Washington.