Carole Boston Weatherford is a Newbery Honoree and a New York Times best-selling author and poet and was named the 2025-2026 Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Her numerous books for children include the Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre , illustrated by Floyd Cooper; the Caldecott Honor Books Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom , illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement , illustrated by Ekua Holmes, which was also a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library , illustrated by Eric Velasquez; the Newbery Honor Book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom , illustrated by Michele Wood; and How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee , illustrated by Frank Morrison. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in Maryland. Bagram Ibatoulline has illustrated many highly acclaimed books for children, including Runaway Pond by Nancy Price Graff; The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and Great Joy , both by Kate DiCamillo; The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischman; On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells; and The Serpent Came to Gloucester by M. T. Anderson. Bagram Ibatoulline lives in Chichester, New York.