Tara Lazar lives in Basking Ridge, NJ, with her husband, two daughters, and 2,749 stuffed animals. She's the author of The Monstore , I Thought This Was a Bear Book (both Simon & Schuster), and Little Red Gliding Hood (Random House). Tara has a background in marketing and PR and is a veritable one-woman mega-promotion machine. Her blog, http://taralazar.wordpress.com/, was ranked #8 on Technorati's Top Book Blogs, and her yearly PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month) event has hundreds of registered users and receives tens of thousands of blog hits. S.britt (AKA Stephan Britt) first developed his zeal for drawing in childhood, when he drew on anything and everything that wasn't dripping wet.

His first picture book, Over In the Hollow (Chronicle), was a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best. Stephan lives in Portland, OR. Visit him online at sbritt.com.