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KYO MACLEAR is the author of many books for children and adults. Her writing has been translated into eighteen languages and published in over twenty-five countries, and has garnered numerous accolades, including a Governor General’s Literary Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work for young people. Her picture books include Noodles on a Bicycle, which was named a Caldecott and Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, and, alongside illustrator Julie Morstad, It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book; Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli; and Julia, Child, a Governor General’s Literary Award finalist. Kyo lives in Toronto, Ontario.
JULIE MORSTAD is the author and illustrator of a number of acclaimed picture books, including A Face Is a Poem, winner of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, and Time Is a Flower, which was a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize, and a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, among other honors. She has also illustrated many other stories for children, such as Kate DiCamillo’s The Puppets of Spelhorst. Julie lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. |
