John Schu is the author of the picture books This Is a School , illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison, and This Is a Story , illustrated by Lauren Castillo, as well as the young adult novel Louder Than Hunger . He is also a children's librarian at Bookelicious and a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University. He was previously the Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic Book Fairs and has worked as a classroom teacher and school librarian. He travels all over the world visiting schools and meeting with students, teachers, and administrators as he advocates for the people and things he cares about most: kids, books, schools, and the libraries--and librarians--that connect them. John Schu lives in Naperville, Illinois. You can find his popular blog, Watch. Connect. Read.

, at www.JohnSchu.com and follow him @MrSchuReads. Holly Hatam is an artist and author who has been drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Even as a kid, she held art gallery openings in her tiny bedroom and charged her family a whopping twenty-five-cent admission fee! Today she is an author and illustrator working in bookmaking and animation. Best known for the #1 New York Times best-selling books Dear Girl and Dear Boy by Paris Rosenthal and Jason B. Rosenthal, Holly Hatam has worked on more than thirty books, both as an illustrator and as an author. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario.

You can find her at hollyhatam.com and on Instagram @hollyhatamillustration.