David Soman and Jacky Davis (www.ladybuggirl.com) are a husband-and-wife creative team. They write the Ladybug Girl books together and Mr. Soman illustrates. The books are inspired by their own children, Lucy and Sam. Jacky Davis has worked in publishing, both at Coffee House Press and S&S Children's Books, as well as in television. She produced graphics at Jim Henson Productions Inc. for The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss. Mr. Soman comes from a family of artists. He has been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for 16 years, and at the Mill Street Loft, a non-profit arts education center in the Hudson Valley, for the past seven.