Katrina Moore is an author and former educator. She holds an MA in teaching and taught for 13 years in Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. She is the author of the humorous Teeny Houdini chapter book series, as well as several acclaimed picture books, including The Star in You, Chang’e on the Moon (a 2024 Bookstagang Best Illustrated book), Grumpy New Year, Hope Is a Hop, One Hug, Grandpa Grumps (a 2023 Georgia Picture Book Award finalist), Sometimes Love (a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year), and Who’s Digging?, the first book in the Big Jobs for Little Babies series. She lives in Buford, Georgia, with her family. Benson Shum is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. Among his many books for young readers is Anzu the Great Kaiju, an ABA Kid’s Indie Next Pick and awarded for Outstanding Achievement in Social Emotional Literature by the Children’s Literature Council of Southern California (CLCSC). School Library Journal called it “a triumph” in a starred review. Aside from writing and illustrating, Shum is also an animation supervisor at the Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he has worked on such films as Frozen and Frozen 2, Big Hero 6, Zootopia 1 and 2, Moana, and Encanto. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Shum now lives in sunny Southern California.
