Jody Jensen Shaffer is the award-winning author of more than eighty books of fiction and nonfiction for children (early readers, picture books, chapter books), including the forthcoming Creep, Leap, Crunch! A Food Chain Story; A Chip of the Old Block, a 2021-2022 Iowa Goldfinch Award nominee; Prudence the Part-Time Cow, a finalist for the 2019-2020 Missouri Show Me Award and a 2017 National Book Festival selection for Missouri; It's Your First Day of School, Busy Bus!, an Amazon bestseller and Amazon Prime Book Box pick; It's a Field Trip, Busy Bus!; Emergency Kittens!, Bear and Friends, a six-book early reader series, and more.