Jen Bryant - writer, poet, biographer - has authored several books for young readers, including Thomas Merton: Poet, Prophet, Priest (Eerdmans), which was listed on New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age. Bethanne Andersen has illustrated many books for young readers, including Seven Brave Women (Greenwillow), which received both the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award; and Bluebird Summer (Greenwillow), which won the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Honor Book Award.