Laura Purdie Salas is the author of more than 130 books for kids, including Bookspeak! Poems about Books (Minnesota Book Award, NCTE Notable, Bank Street Best Books, Eureka! Gold Medal, and more), Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School (finalist, Minnesota Book Award), and In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House (NCTE Notable Poetry Book). Poetry and rhyming nonfiction books are her favorite things to write. Julia Patton is an illustrator, author, and designer, who has also run a freelance greeting card business since 1994 and has periodically taught in BA and MA programs at various universities. She has illustrated more than 56 books, including 7 that she also wrote. Her author-illustrator title The Very Very Very Long Dog was on the Kids Indie Next Picks List and became a Dreamscape animation. She says, "I'm a huge advocate of silly . [and] probably due to this I'm irritatingly 99.9 % happy at all times.

" She lives in Tyne & Wear, England.