Julie Fogliano has spent her entire life reading children's books. Now she stays up way too late writing her own while eating cereal. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and their three children. They make her very tired, but give her lots of good ideas, including And Then It's Spring , If You Want to See a Whale , and When Green Becomes Tomatoes . Chris Raschka is a writer-illustrator of over sixty books for children. Among them are Charlie Parker played be bop, Yo! Yes? , A Poke in the I , Five for a Little One , and A Ball for Daisy . He has received the Caldecott Medal twice, and the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Citation five times. He lives with his family in New York City.