Jessica Young is an elementary/middle-school art teacher and author. The same things make her happy now as when she was a kid: dancing, painting, music, digging in the dirt, picnics, reading, and writing. Her debut picture book "My Blue is Happy" was a 2014 Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Title and was featured on multiple best-book lists. She lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee. James Burks spent fifteen years working in the animation industry on various movies and television shows, including "The Emperor's New Groove," "Atlantis," "Treasure Planet," "Space Jam," "The Iron Giant," "Wow Wow Wubbzy," and most recently on "Fan Boy & Chum Chum." James is the author of the Bird & Squirrel graphic novel series for Scholastic, as well as the illustrator for the Branches series Haggis and Tank Unleashed. James lives in Valencia, California.