Terry Pierce is an accomplished writer for children with twenty-five books published. She put her degree in early childhood education to use, teaching for twenty-two years as a preprimary Montessori teacher, before deciding to follow her dream of writing for children (what she calls 'the best mid-life crisis ever!'). She has an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in central California.

Simone Shin is the illustrator of, most recently, Mama Loves You So by Terry Pierce, Niko Draws a Feeling by Bob Raczka (Junior Library Guild selection), and Bumpety, Dunkety, Thumpety-Thump! by K.L. Going, as well as The Red Bicycle by Jude Isabella. She is the recipient of a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators, and her illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, Real Simple, Wired, and other publications.