Dr. Gail Saltz is associate professor of psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, and CBS News, and is a mental health contributor to the Today show. She is also the author of the adult book Becoming Real: Defeating the Stories We Tell Ourselves That Hold Us Back. She lives in New York City. Lynne Cravath has illustrated numerous books for children, including I Hate Weddings, by P. J. Petersen; One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims, by B.

G. Hennessy; and The Rattlesnake Who Went to School, by Craig Kee Strete. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.