Emily Jenkins

Emily Jenkins is the author of many award-winning books for children, including Water in the Park, a Booklist Editors' Choice and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book; Lemonade in Winter, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and two Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Books: Five Creatures and That New Animal. She is also the author of the popular Toys Go Out trilogy: Toys Go Out, Toy Dance Party, and Toys Come Home. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and invites you to visit her online at emilyjenkins.com.

G. Brian Karas has illustrated over fifty books for children, including Lemonade in Winter by Emily Jenkins, Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle, and Are You Going to Be Good? by Cari Best, a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book. In addition to illustrating, he has written and illustrated many titles of his own, including The Village Garage and On Earth. Brian lives in the Hudson Valley of New York, and invites you to visit him online at gbriankaras.com.