Joy Cowley is a New Zealand language and reading specialist. She has written more than 500 books for beginning readers, many of which have been honored internationally. The Cheese Trap won the AIM Children's Book Award for Best Picture Book (1996) and Red-Eyed Tree Frog won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book (1999). She has won New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards for Best Junior Fiction for Ticket to the Sky Dance (1998) and Starbright and the Dream Eater (1999). The Mouse Bride (1998) is being produced as an animated program for New Zealand television.
Jennifer Plecas is the illustrator of Snow Day! as well as several other books, among them Good Night, Good Knight and Get Well, Good Knight, both published by Dutton. She lives in Blue Springs, Missouri.
