Margaret Chang, a former children’s librarian, holds an MA in children’s literature and for seventeen years taught graduate and undergraduate courses in children’s literature at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She and Raymond have published an introduction to the Chinese language, as well as four children’s books set in China, among them Cricket Warrior. Her most recent book for children is Celia’s Robot. She and Raymond now live on Bainbridge Island, Washington.

Raymond Chang was born in Hong Kong, moved to Shanghai when he was very young, and lived in Shanghai during the 1940s, from the Japanese occupation through the Communist regime. He later graduated from the University of London in chemistry and earned a PhD from Yale University. He taught chemistry at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Warwick Hutton had a strong conviction that pictures for children should have depth and distance, space and mood. His own books—Noah and the Great Flood, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nose Tree, Jonah and the Great Fish, Beauty and the Beast, Moses in the Bulrushes, and The Cricket Warrior—demonstrate that conviction. He resided in Cambridge, England.