Jane Yolen

About the Author

Jane Yolen is the author of over four hundred books, including the Caldecott Medal winner Owl Moon and the bestselling How Do Dinosaurs series. Her many awards include three Christopher Medals, two Nebula Awards, the Kerlan Award, the Jewish Book Award, and the Sydney Taylor Body of Work Award, among many others. Jane lives in Western Massachusetts and invites you to visit her online at janeyolen.com. 

Dow Phumiruk is the award-winning illustrator of many books, including Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13, which won the Bank Street College of Education Cook Prize and was named an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book, among many other honors, and Her Name Was Mary Katherine: The Only Woman Whose Name Is on the Declaration of Independence, which was an NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies selection and  a CBC Children’s Favorite Award winner. A retired pediatrician with a passion for art, Dow lives in Colorado with her family. She invites you to visit her at artbydow.com.