Tommy Greenwald is the author of many popular books for children, including picture books, novels for middle grade readers, and The Rescues , his first series for emerging readers. Charlie Greenwald is a copywriter by profession and a co-author with his dad on this children's book series. The Greenwald family has had four rescue dogs--Moose, Coco, Abby, and Momo--who inspired this series. (They have not had a dog named Bear, but give it time.) Shiho Pate is a California-based illustrator with experience in the gaming field. She is passionate about children's book illustration and has published several books, including Ramen for Everyone and the Chi-Chi and Pey-Pey series. Shiho lives with her husband, daughter, and new dog addition Olive, whom she adopted when they met at a book signing/dog adoption event for the first Rescues book.