Trish Holland is the author of the Little Golden Books I'm Not Sleepy , I Can Do It! , and Lasso the Moon . She is also the coauthor of the Big Golden Book The Soldiers' Night Before Christmas . Valeria Petrone has illustrated numerous picture books, including Red Truck, Blue Boat, and Yellow Copter (all by Kersten Hamilton), and Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin (by Mary Serfozo), and does editorial illustration for several Italian and UK magazines. She lives in Milan, Italy.