Tony Johnston is the award-winning author of over one hundred children's books including, most recently, A Small Thing . but Big , illustrated by Hadley Hooper. She worked with Wendell Minor on picture books Sequoia and Cat, What Is That? , as well as collaborated with Tomie dePaola on titles like The Quilt Story and The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote . She lives in San Marino, California. Wendell Minor has illustrated and/or written over fifty children's books, many of them award winners. He was recently honored as the Norman Rockwell Museum's 2018-2019 Artist Laureate. He collaborated with Tony Johnston on the picture book Sequoia, and he is well known for his collaborations with the late Jean Craighead George. He lives in Connecticut.