Jane Yolen is the author of well over 400 published books, including the Caldecott-winning Owl Moon, and the multimillion bestselling How Do Dinosaurs series, plus novels, short story collections, poetry collections, and many picture books. Her multiple awards include Nebulas, World Fantasy, three Christopher Medal awards, the Kerlan Award, the Jewish Book Award, the Sydney Taylor Body of Work Award, as well as being named Grand Master by three major writing organizations: Science Fictions Writers of America, the World Fantasy Association, and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She has six honorary doctorates from colleges and universities. She teaches writing, sends out a poem a day to subscribers, and at eighty-three, got remarried to an old college boyfriend who is a poet himself.

Ariel Stemple is an author from Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a bachelor of fine arts degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. They come from a family of writers, including Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple. They trained in a martial arts style called wu chien pai for ten years. Kiki Kicks is their debut picture book.

John Ledda, considered many careers—from architect to dolphin trainer—before returning to the one thing he had always loved: Art. With a BA in Studio Art and an MFA in Illustration, John is now an illustrator, graphic designer, and writer-in-training. He creates exciting, whimsical worlds full of expressive characters and documents moments—big and small—that kids experience as they learn and grow.