ELISSA HADEN GUEST is the author of Iris and Walter, a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and the coauthor of Girl Stuff: A Survival Guide to Growing Up. She lives with her family in San Francisco, California.
CHRISTINE DAVENIER has illustrated numerous children's books, including Iris and Walter, a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; Mabel Dancing; and Very Best (Almost) Friends: Poems of Friendship, a Riverbank Review Book of Distinction. She lives with her family in Paris.