Tammi Sauer is the author of Cowboy Camp , Chicken Dance , Mary Had a Little Glam , and Your Alien , which has earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews . She and her family live in Oklahoma. To learn more about Sauer and her books, visit tammisauer.com or find her on Twitter at @SauerTammi. Goro Fujita was born in Japan and moved with his family to Germany when he was 3 years old. He was fascinated by drawing ever since he was a little child. In 2008 he moved to San Jose, California, where he works as a book illustrator and visual development artist on feature films. Rumor has it that aliens taught him how to paint.