Joe Rhatigan is an author and editor whose twenty-year book publishing career has taken him from creating and managing imprints to editing and/or writing more than 100 children's books for trade, wholesale, and educational markets. His picture books and fiction include I Love a Book (MoonDance Press, 2017), The Egg Salad Sandwich Incident (Teacher Created Materials, 2019), Everyone Toots (MoonDance Press, 2018), and Doggie Day Care (Little Hippo Books, 2020). His nonfiction includes Little Genius Solar System (Little Genius, 2021) Step into Reading: Space (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2016), 50 Wacky Inventions Throughout History (Walter Foster Jr., 2017), White House Kids (Charlesbridge, 2015), Ouch! (Charlesbridge, 2013), and Out-of-This-World Astronomy (Lark Books, 2003). He lives in the mountains of North Carolina with his family and a dog named Rooster.

JOMIKE TEJIDO has illustrated over a hundred books for children, including the Pet Charms series (Scholastic Leveled Readers) and Jumbo Stickers for Little Hands (Quarto). His most recent work was his US debut as author-illustrator, There Was An Old Woman Who Lived in a Book, (Jimmy Patterson Books /Little & Brown). When not creating picture books, Jomike paints and builds kinetic sculptures. Visit his site at www.jomiketejido.com.