Kathi Appelt is the author of the Newbery Honoree, National Book Award finalist, PEN USA Literary Award–winning, and bestselling
The Underneath, as well as the National Book Award finalist
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, Keeper, and many picture books, including
Counting Crows. She has two grown children and lives in College Station, Texas, with her husband. Visit her at www.kathiappelt.com.
Joy Fisher Hein is an artist, painter, jewelry designer, sculptor, gardener, and illustrator. She has illustrated eight books. Joy’s work is collected by art appreciators living around our amazing planet. She enjoys sharing her love of art and nature with people of all ages. Joy is also a Texas Master Naturalist and certified to create Schoolyard Habitats for the National Wildlife Federation. She and her husband, Frank, an artist and a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, live in the Texas Hill Country.