Heidi Stemple didn't want to be a writer when she grew up. In fact, after she graduated from college, she became a probation officer in Florida. It wasn't until she was 28 years old that she gave in and joined the family business, publishing her first short story in a book called Famous Writers and Their Kids Write Spooky Stories . The famous writer was her mom, author Jane Yolen. Since then, she has published almost 50 books and numerous short stories and poems, mostly for children. Heidi lives and writes on a big old farm in Massachusetts that she shares with a dozen deer, a family of bears, three coyotes, two bobcats, a gray fox, tons of birds, and once, an enormous moose. Once a year she calls and counts owls for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Annie Gregoire is a graphic collage artist from beautiful western Maine.

She uses acrylic paint on recycled materials or ephemera to create funky, bold, and playful illustrations. E. Norm Moose is her debut as a children's book illustrator.