J. Elizabeth Mills, Ph.D., is a program manager at OCLC WebJunction and an independent researcher. She studies how children's librarians engage with and support families and young children in the communities they serve. As a children's book editor at Scholastic, she edited and wrote dozens of books for children. Mills is co-author of Supercharged Storytimes: An Early Literacy Planning and Assessment Guide and co-editor of Create, Innovate, and Serve: A Radical Approach to Children's and Youth Programming . Her picture book, The Spooky Wheels on the Bus , was published in 2010, followed by The Merry Wheels on the Bus in 2024.

Ben Mantle has illustrated numerous books for children. He lives in London, England.