Ellen Yeomans is the author of many books for young readers including Jubilee (2004), Remembering a Sister (2000), and a young adult novel Rubber Houses (2007). She is a farmhand for nearby 150-year-old Abbott's Farm, she shears sheep, mixes feed, mucks stalls, and moves around far too many bales of hay and straw. The Other Ducks is her first book for Roaring Brook Press.

Chris Sheban has been awarded three gold and three silver medals by the Society of Illustrators. Some of the books he has illustrated are I Met a Dinosaur by Jan Wahl, Catching the Moon by Myla Goldberg, and What To Do With a Box by Jane Yolen. He also illustrated Someone Like Me by Patricia MacLachlan, also published by Roaring Brook Press.