Caroline Lazo has written many award-winning books for children, including Alice Walker: Freedom Writer, a Society of School Librarians International Honor Book and an NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People; and F. Scott Fitzgerald: Voice of the Jazz Age, a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book. This is Ms. Lazo’s first picture book, and it was inspired by Clancy, her favorite cat. Ms. Lazo lives in beautiful Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Kyrsten Brooker has illustrated many books for children, including The Night Is Singing, by Jacqueline Davies; Precious and the Boo Hag, by Patricia C. McKissack and Onawumi Jean Moss, which was an ALA Notable Book, a School Library Journal Book of the Year, and the recipient of a Charlotte Zolotow Honor; and Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street, by Roni Schotter. Ms. Brooker grew up with a Siamese cat named Pushti and now lives (without a cat) in Alberta, Canada.