ELISA CARBONE is an acclaimed novelist whose historical fiction has earned her an ALA Notable Book, an ALA Best Books for Young Adults, and the Jefferson Cup Award. This is her first picture book.

E. B. LEWIS is the award-winning illustrator of more than 25 books for children, including Joe-Joe’s First Flight by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley; Talkin’ About Bessie by Nikki Grimes, winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustration; and Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson, a Caldecott Honor Book. He lives in New Jersey.