Deborah Hopkinson is as award-winning of picture books, fiction, and nonfiction for young readers. In 2013 she received a Robert F. Sibert Honor and YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award honor for
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster. She has won the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Picture Book
Text Twice, for
A Band of Angels and
Apples to Oregon.
Sky Boys, How They Built the Empire State Building, was a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor awardee. She lives near Portland, Oregon.
Hadley Hooper is a fine artist and the illustrator of many distinctive picture books, including
The Iridescence of Birds, by Patricia Maclachlan,
Another Way to Climb a Tree, by Liz Garton Scanlon, and
Two Brothers, Four Hands, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. She lives in Denver, Colorado.