About the Author
Crescent Dragonwagon is an award-winning author of more than 50 books, over half of them picture books, including
Always, Always, which received the Parents’ Choice Literary Honor, and the Coretta Scott King Award-winning
Half a Moon and One Whole Star, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, which was a Reading Rainbow selection. She has also written two novels and several acclaimed cookbooks. The daughter of legendary children’s book writer and editor Charlotte Zolotow, she published her first children’s book at age 17 (
Rainy Day Together, Harper, 1970). She lives in Vermont. Visit her online at
http://www.dragonwagon.com.
David McPhail has been a passionate artist since the age of two. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and began illustrating books for children in 1972. Since then he has created dozens of beloved books, including the celebrated
Mole Music, which was a
New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, the bestselling
If You Were My Bunny,
Edward and the Pirates,
Lost! and
Drawing Lessons from a Bear. He lives in New Hampshire.
