KELLY CUNNANE received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for her picture book For You Are a Kenyan Child, which the New York Times described as entrancing . . . [an] inviting introduction to a different culture. Her book Chirchir Is Singing was an ALA-ALSC Notable Children''s Book. Kelly has lived and taught in Kenya and Mauritania and currently lives in Beals, Maine.
HODA HADADI is a children''s books illustrator living and working in Tehran, Iran. She has illustrated more than forty books fo r children and has won numerous international prizes, including the New Horizons Bologna Ragazzi Award and the Grand Prix of Belgrade. This is her first U.S. picture book.