Joyce Sidman is today's foremost nature poet writing for children. Her books have won a Newbery Honor, a Sibert Medal, two Caldecott Honors, and Bank Street's Claudia Lewis Award. For her body of work, she won the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. She lives in Wayzata, MN, where she loves to look for branching shapes in oak trees and rhubarb leaves. Visit her at joycesidman.com Beth Krommes won the Caldecott Medal for The House in the Night for her distinctive scratchboard illustrations, hailed by critics as "spectacular," "astonishing," and "mesmerizing." The award-winning illustrator of many picture books, she recently graduated with a degree in textile design from the Fashion Institute of Technology, which has furthered her fascination with patterns. She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where she loves to spot the branching shape of the veins on dragonfly wings. Visit her at bethkrommes.com.