Nancy Raines Day is a freelance editor and picture-book consultant for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. After earning her BA in journalism from the University of Michigan, she earned an MA in literacy journalism from Syracuse University. Day is a member of the Authors Guild and lives in St. Simons Island, Georgia. Herb Leonhard received a BFA in illustration from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. His award-winning work has appeared in D Magazine, among other publications. He is the illustrator of several other Pelican books, including St. Patrick and the Three Brave Mice, Way Out West on My Little Pony, A Southern Child's Garden of Verses, Leonardo's Monster, I Know a Librarian Who Chewed on a Word, A Is for Alliguitar: Musical Alphabeasts, and Southern Mother Goose. Leonhard lives in Prosser, Washington.