Deborah Diesen is the author of the New York Times bestselling Pout-Pout Fish series and the The Worry-Worry Whale series, illustrated by Dan Hanna. She lives in Michigan with family.
Mary Lundquist is the author and illustrator of Cat & Bunny and The Little Forest Keepers and the illustrator of seven other picture books including Bloom, written by Deborah Diesen and The Amazing Idea of You, written by Charlotte Sullivan Wild. She graduated with a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and now lives in the town of Princeton, New Jersey with her husband and three kids.