Kate Riggs is an editor and author of children's and young adult nonfiction. In 2012, her book Dolphins (Amazing Animals) was honored as the winner of the Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award for Transitional Nonfiction. Laszlo Kubinyi was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to artist parents and grew up on the East Coast. He studied art in Mexico and the United States and has created illustrations for many books and publications such as Time.