Lisa Westberg Peters is the award-winning author of many books for children, including the best-seller The Sun, the Wind and the Rain . She lives in Minneapolis with her husband. Steve Jenkins (1952-2022) was the author, designer, and illustrator of more than eighty science and natural world picture books for young readers, including the Boston Globe -Horn Book Award-winner The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest , and the Caldecott Honor Book What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (co-created with his wife Robin Page). He also collaborated with many other authors, contributing his colorful torn paper art collages to April Pulley Sayre's Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep , Lisa Westberg Peters' Volcano Wakes Up! , and Valerie Worth's Pug and Other Animal Poems .