JOHANNA SKIBSRUD is the author of The Sentimentalists , which won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her most recent novel for adults is Quartet for the End of Time . Johanna is donating part of her royalties to the Himalayan School Project, which supports the education of young girls in Nepal. For more information, please visit www.himalaynaschoolproject.org. SARAH BLACKER is a writer and editor currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Sarah is donating part of her royalties to Camp Oochigeas, a summer camp for children with cancer.

For more information, please visit www.ooch.org. JULIE MORSTAD is an author, illustrator and artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her most recent book for children, How To , marks her authorial debut, and has received starred reviews in Kirkus , School Library Journal and Quill & Quire , as well as a Governor General's award nomination. Books she has illustrated for children include When You Were Small , recipient of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award; When I Was Small , winner of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize; and Singing Away the Dark , which was shortlisted for a number of children's literature prizes.