Alice Schertle is an award-winning poet and author of more than 40 books for children, most well known for her New York Times bestselling series, Good Night, Little Blue Truck. She lives in Plainfield, MA.

Anne Dewdney was an award-winning American author and illustrator, teacher, mother and enthusiastic supporter of literacy and reading aloud to children. The first book she wrote and illustrated, Llama Llama Red Pajama, received critical acclaim in 2005. She wrote many other books in the Llama Llama series, which have all been New York Times bestsellers. Her work has been adapted into stage plays, dance performances, musicals, and an animated television series for Netflix.

Beth Ferry is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous children's books illustrated by amazing artists, including Stick and Stone (2017), The Scarecrow (2019), The Nice Dream Truck (2021), and Ten Rules of the Birthday Wish (2019). She lives with her husband, three kids and two bulldogs by the beach in New Jersey.

Jonathan Stutzman is an award-winning children's book author and filmmaker. His work for children includes the bestselling Tiny T. Rex series, as well as the Llama trilogy (illustrated by his wife Heather Fox), Bear Is a Bear (illustrated by Dan Santat), Don't Feed the Coos, and Santa Baby. Fitz and Cleo is his debut graphic novel. His books have been translated in over a dozen languages all over the world. He lives in Lititz, a small town in Pennsylvania with his wife and their french bulldog Hugo.

Utah couple Sarah Jane Wright and her husband Kenneth are most famous for their Lola Dutch children’s book series. Sarah Jane opened an online shop in 2008 that has since grown into a worldwide business with art prints, fabrics, wallpaper, puppets, and illustrated children’s books. Kenneth is a full-time educator and history teacher. Together, they have 4 children and write and illustrate beautiful picture books. When their book, Lola Dutch, was first sent out to publishers, it ignited a bidding war among four publishing houses. Ultimately, the Wrights sold the book to Bloomsbury, allowing it to be published internationally from the day it first hits bookstores.

Utah couple Sarah Jane Wright and her husband Kenneth are most famous for their Lola Dutch children’s book series. Sarah Jane opened an online shop in 2008 that has since grown into a worldwide business with art prints, fabrics, wallpaper, puppets, and illustrated children’s books. Kenneth is a full-time educator and history teacher. Together, they have 4 children and write and illustrate beautiful picture books. When their book, Lola Dutch, was first sent out to publishers, it ignited a bidding war among four publishing houses. Ultimately, the Wrights sold the book to Bloomsbury, allowing it to be published internationally from the day it first hits bookstores.

Ludwig Bemelmans was an Austrian-American painter, illustrator and writer of children’s and adult books, best know for his famous Madeline series. Each of the revered Madeline books, all of which centre around a fearless little girl growing up in a Catholic boarding school in Paris, began with the same, now well-known phrase, "In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines… The smallest
of the girls, was Madeline”.

Molly Idle was born in Los Angeles, California, and moved with her family to Tempe, Arizona when she was six years old. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Arizona State University and after college, she began her career as an animator for DreamWorks Feature Animation studios...

Nina Laden is an award-winning, bestselling children’s book author and illustrator. She was born and raised in the New York City area, the daughter of two artists, and she has been “making art and telling stories since she could hold a crayon".

Richard Scarry is one of the world’s best-loved children’s authors and illustrators. Generations of children all over the world have grown up immersed in his books filled with colourful details and beloved, iconic characters.

Samuel McBratney was a writer from Northern Ireland. He wrote more than fifty books for children and young adults, and is best known as the author of the best-selling children's book Guess How Much I Love You, which has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, and been translated into 57 languages. It has also spawned a pop-up version, a drove of stuffed toy hares, an animated television series and a stage play.

Sandra Boynton is an American cartoonist, songwriter, director, music producer, children's author, and illustrator. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five books for children and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and five music albums. She has also designed calendars, wallpaper, bedding, stationery, paper goods, clothing, jewelry, and plush toys for various companies. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.

Sasha Quinton is the author of more than thirty children's books for specialty markets. Florabelle is her most well known story, about a little girl with her head in the clouds but with a huge imagination.

Sharon Thayer is an award-winning children’s book author, speaker, freelance writer and consultant, who lives in Tyler, Texas. Her journey from a dyslexic, non-reading child to a national award-winning author “has been an adventure filled with a great story's dramatic twists and turns.” She has owned a nature-based kid's centre/summer camp in the mountains of Colorado, where she discovered her passion for exploring the wonders of nature. “Today”, she has said, “I entertain and inspire children of all ages through my stories that travel to magical worlds and down paths of self-discovery while introducing readers to the wonders of nature in my backstories.”

Sherri Duskey Rinker is the New York Times bestselling author of Steam Train, Dream Train and the Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site series (eight picture books and counting!). She is also the author of young middle novel Revver the Speedway Squirrel, and a nonfiction picture book biography Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Burton...

Emily Winfield Martin is an American artist and author-illustrator of children's books. She has said that, “when she was small, she spent every moment drawing, reading, dressing rabbits in fancy clothes, and having many peculiar daydreams.” When she grew up, she started “to illustrate those daydreams”...

Kay Thompson was an American writer, singer, vocal arranger, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer, best known for creating the famous Eloise children's books, which featured a comically naughty little girl living
in the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Nicholas Oldland is a Canadian children’s author and illustrator, as well as creative director at Hatley/Little Blue House, a popular children’s and women’s apparel company.

Tad Hills is an American children’s book author and illustrator. His first picture book, Duck & Goose (2006), about a pair of feathered friends, became a New York Times bestseller.

Anita Jeram is an English author and illustrator of picture books for children. Growing up in Portsmouth, England, Anita always enjoyed drawing (especially animals), but worked in many different fields before pursuing a degree in art and illustration at Manchester Polytechnic.

Brigette Barrager is an artist, designer, writer and illustrator of children's books. She attended the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned a degree in character animation, before taking the plunge into book illustration, where she’s lived happily ever after.

Hilary Knight is an American writer and artist. As the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books, he is best known as the illustrator and co-creator of Kay Thompson's Eloise (1955) and its sequels, and has been creating art for seven
decades.

Jay Fleck is a designer and illustrator based in Shorewood, IL. His artwork has been featured on products at the Gap and Papyrus, on Threadless.com and on the front page of Society6.com, as well as a number of other brick-and-mortar and internet stores. His illustrations have been featured in many children’s books, including the Tiny T. Rex series (written by Jonathan Stutzman), We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt (written by Kelly DiPucchio), Black Belt Bunny (written by Jacky Davis), and The Diamond and the Boy (written by Hannah Holt). Tilly and Tank is the first picture book he has both written and illustrated.

Jill McElmurry was an American painter, book illustrator, and sometime writer-illustrator of children's picture books, including her own Mad About Plaid and the best-selling Little Blue Truck series. Jill passed away in 2017.

Melissa Castrillon is an English and Colombian illustrator based in the south east of England. She studied at the Cambridge School of Art where she earned a first class honours degree in illustration and a master’s degree in children’s book illustration.

Born and educated in Paris, Michel Tcherevkoff is a New York City-based artist, photographer, and lecturer whose career in advertising spans more than forty years. His signature style ("reality with a twist") has earned him hundreds of awards for creativity and design.

Tom Lichtenheld is the illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Duck Rabbit, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, written by Sherri Duskey Rinker, and Stick and Stone, written by Beth Ferry. He has also written and illustrated many popular books for children, including Everything I Know about Pirates and What Are You So Grumpy About. He lives in Geneva, Illinois, with his wife, Jan.