Margy Burns Knight is a children's book author and educator based in Maine. She received the National Education Association's Author Illustrator Human and Civil Rights Award and the Children's Africana Book Award for Africa Is Not a Country. Mark Melnicove is an author, teacher, and director. He is based in Maine. Anne Sibley O'Brien is a children's book illustrator of over thirty-five picture books. A 2014 recipient of the Katahdin Award for lifetime achievement from the Maine Library Association, Anne is dedicated to diversity education and leadership training. She cofounded two projects featuring diverse books: I'm Your Neighbor Books, and the Diverse BookFinder. She lives with her husband on an island in Maine, and is the mother of two grown children and a grandmother of two.