Carrie Lara, PsyD, has been working with children in various community mental health settings since 2005. Her specializations are working with children and families, child and human development, foster and adoptive youth, learning disabilities and special education, attachment based play therapy, and trauma. She is also the author of Marvelous Maravilloso. She lives in Sonoma County, California.

Colleen Lamour is an illustrator and designer, living in Northern Ireland. She first studied art at Liverpool Art School, with a focus on children's animation and design, before completing an MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art.

As well as children's illustration, Colleen has produced artwork for magazines, client commissions and her own online shop Little Carousel.