SUSAN HOOD has written hundreds of children's books, including picture books, board books, interactive books, nonfiction, and beginning readers. She lives with her family in Connecticut and enjoys spending the summer sailing with her husband along the coast of Maine.
MARY LUNDQUIST graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and then moved to England for three years. She and her husband now live by the Pacific Ocean and visit the beach at least once a week.