Jacqueline Woodson (JacquelineWoodson.com) received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the Children's Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2022 Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, and was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming , won the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and an NAACP Image Award. Her dozens of books for young readers include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner Before the Ever After , New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me , Newbery Honor winners Feathers , Show Way , and After Tupac and D Foster , and Each Kindness , which won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. E. B.

Lewis (EBLewis.com) is the acclaimed illustrator of over seventy picture books, including Each Kindness , The Other Side , and Caldecott Honor Book Coming On Home Soon (all by Jacqueline Woodson); Riding Magic (by Kelly Starling Lyons); the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award winner Preaching to the Chickens (by Jabari Asim); and several Coretta Scott King Award winners, such as Talkin' About Bessie (by Nikki Grimes) and The Bat Boy and His Violin (by Gavin Curtis). He taught art in public schools for many years and at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He lives in Folsom, New Jersey.