Jacqueline Briggs Martin has published twenty-one books for children. Her picture book biography of a self-taught scientist, Snowflake Bentley , won the 1999 Caldecott medal. Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Re-mix (cowritten with June Jo Lee) was a Sibert Honor book in 2018. Creekfinding: A True Story , published by the University of Minnesota Press, was one of the New York Public Library's 100 Best Books of 2017; it was the Green Earth Award winner in 2018 and a Riverby Award winner.

Larry Day is the award-winning illustrator of many books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Lion, Lion , one of NPR's Best Books, and Not Afraid of Dogs , winner of the Golden Kite Award. George Did It! received the Monarch Award, and Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak won seven state awards, including the Carol Otis Hurst Prize. The Society of Illustrators has awarded Day three gold medals (so far).