Saroj Nadkarni Ghoting has been a children's librarian for more than 35 years and is now an early childhood literacy consultant. She is coauthor of the best-selling Early Literacy Storytimes @ your library (2005), Early Literacy Kit: A Manual and Tip Cards (2009), and Storytimes for Everyone: Developing Young Children's Language and Literacy (2013). She presents at conferences and conducts face-to-face trainings and online trainings on early literacy, science and math in story times, and Every Child Ready to Read.

Kathy Fling Klatt has worked as an assistant children's librarian and program coordinator for 35 years at the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library in Broomfield, Colorado, where she presents weekly baby and family story times and is responsible for scheduling arts, science, and cultural programs for children ages new-born through fifth grade. She presents Every Child Ready to Read trainings for parents and grandparents and, most recently, Confident Parenting trainings for parents and children, focusing on social and emotional skills. She taught preschool for 30 years, working with three- to five-year-olds and developed and taught preschool science classes at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. She has also copresented on early literacy and music for the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the ALA.