Sara Cassidy's books have been shortlisted for many awards, including the Chocolate Lily Award for both
Black Gold and
Blackberry Juice, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award for
A Boy Named Queen and the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize for
Skylark. Additionally, both
A Boy Named Queen and
Double Play were Junior Library Guild selections. Her poetry, fiction and nonfiction for adults have been widely published. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Josée Bisaillon has illustrated more than twenty-five children’s books, created numerous editorial illustrations for magazines and newspapers. She has been shortlisted twice for the Governor General's Literary Award, and she won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award for The Snow Knows. She lives outside Montreal with her family.