Deborah Hopkinson is the author of numerous award-winning children’s books, including Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, winner of the International Reading Association Award, Girl Wonder, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award, and Apples to Oregon, a Junior Library Guild Selection. She received the 2003 Washington State Book Award for Under the Quilt for the Night. She lives in Oregon. Visit her onlinw at DeborahHopkinson.com.
Nancy Carpenter is the acclaimed illustrator of
Fannie in the Kitchen, as well as
Masai and I,
Sitti’s Secrets, and
Loud Emily, among other books. She lives with her husband, daughter, and cat in Brooklyn, New York.