Patricia Hruby Powell is the author of Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker , which earned five starred reviews, won a Robert F. Sibert Nonfiction Honor, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, Parent's Choice Gold for Poetry, Ragazzi Bologna International Nonfiction Honor, and Best Book Recognition from The Wall Street Journal , Huffington Post , ALA Notable, and NCTE. She is also the author of the YA documentary novel Loving Vs. Virginia, which was an Indie Next Pick; Struttin' With Some Barbecue , a middle grade biography of Lil Hardin Armstrong and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book; and Lift as You Climb , a picture book biography of Ella Baker. Visit her at TalesforAllAges.com. R. Gregory Christie received a Caldecott Honor for his illustrations in Freedom in Congo Square , written by Carole Boston Weatherford.

He is a three-time recipient of The New York Times 's 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year Award, a six-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award in Illustration, and a winner of the Boston Globe­-Horn Book Award, the NAACP's Image Award, and the Once Upon a World Children's Book Award from the Museum of Tolerance. Visit Mr. Christie's website at Gas-Art.com.