CANDICE RANSOM only ever wanted to be a children's book writer. She is the author of over 125 books for kids and young adults, including Apple Picking Day! and Pumpkin Day! in the Step Into Reading series. A teacher in the children's literature program at Hollins University, she lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with her cats, Faulkner and Edison.
MONIQUE DONG has always been drawn to illustration. At the age of 19 she headed off to Cape Town, South Africa, where she studied animation at City Varsity. She then began work at one of South Africa’s only animation companies at the time, Clockwork Zoo, and animated for Disney Channel’s Florrie’s Dragons. She married her husband in 2011 and shortly thereafter moved to China, where they live now. Visit her on the Web at moniquedong.tumblr.com.
