Rafael?López?is a?New York Times-bestselling, award winning illustrator who has illustrated numerous acclaimed picture books, including?The Day You Begin?and?The Year We Learned to Fly?(New York Times?bestsellers),?Dancing Hands?(Pura Belpré Medal), and?Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You?(Schneider Award), among others. Rafael is the recipient of three Pura Belpré medals, the Schneider Family Book Award, the Jane Addams Book Award, and the Tomás Rivera Book Award. He was the first guest artist of the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum and founder of the Urban Art Trail, a series of large-scale community murals around the U.S. Rafael lives in San Diego and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.?You can visit him at rafaellopez.com.

Theresa Howell began her career in publishing as a children's book editor at Rising Moon, where she helped to establish the bilingual imprint Luna Rising. She is the author of several children's books with an artistic and cultural focus.