Hoda Kotb is the Daytime Emmy Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, and duPont-Columbia Award-winning Today show co-anchor and Dateline NBC correspondent. Hoda is the author of two adult New York Times bestselling books, including Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee. Of all her accomplishments, her proudest moment is the adoption of a baby girl, Haley Joy, in February 2017. She lives in New York City with her boyfriend, Joel Schiffman.

Suzie Mason is a freelance illustrator who draws lovely things-from animals to fairies to multicolored pumpkins-and adores using bright colors to create happy artwork. She is the illustrator of Elephants, written by Rebecca Heller and published in the UK. Suzie works in her little house in beautiful Bournville, England, where she lives with her husband and ball-of-fuzz kitty.