Dean Robbins is a journalist and the author of the children's picture books Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass , Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing , and Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote . His award-winning books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews and have been praised in the New York Times and USA Today . Dean grew up idolizing Apollo astronauts and loved working with Alan Bean on The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon . Learn more at deanrobbins.net. Hatem Aly is an Egyptian-born illustrator whose work has been featured in multiple publications worldwide. He is the illustrator of The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz, which won a Newbery Honor.

Hatem currently lives in the beautiful province of New Brunswick, Canada.