Rachelle Burk is the author of more than twenty fiction and nonfiction books for children ages 1-14, including picture books, chapter books, board books, and an award-winning middle grade novel. She writes on both secular and Jewish themes with various publishers and has also written for children's magazines such as Highlights and Scholastic Science World . Rachelle has presented at hundreds of elementary, middle, andpre-K schools around the country with her dynamic (and often hilarious) Author Visit Programs. Learn more at rachelleburk.com. Chiara Fedele was born in Milan, where she attended the Brera Academy. Her illustrations have appeared in many picture books, including Yaffa and Fatima: Shalom, Salaam and The Rabbi and the Reverend: Joachim Prinz, Martin Luther King Jr., and Their Fight Against Silence .

Chiara also teaches drawing and painting techniques. She lives in Pavia, Italy.