Fran Manushkin is the author of many books, including the Katie Woo series, Baby, Come Out!, How Mama Brought the Spring, The Tushy Book and The Belly Book. Fran was an editor at Harper & Row and worked with Ursula Nordstrom and Charlotte Zolotow. She lives in New York City. Visit her website at www.franmanushkin.com and follow her on twitter @fmanushkin. Lauren Tobia graduated from the University of the West of England with a degree in Illustration and was highly commended in the Macmillan Children's Book Prize. She is the illustrator of Baby's Got the Blues, by Carol Diggory Shields, and the highly successful Anna Hibiscus picture books, written by Atinuke. Lauren lives in Bristol with her husband and their two Jack Russell terriers, Poppy and Tilly. Visit her website at www.laurentobia.com and follow her on twitter @laurentobia.