Bill Martin, Jr. (1916-2004) has been called "America’s favorite children’s author." He wrote more than 300 books for children, including the classic texts Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, illustrated by Eric Carle; and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, illustrated by Lois Ehlert.
Michael Sampson is a
New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two books for young children, including
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 and
The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry. He and Bill Martin Jr wrote many popular books together, including
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? and
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? Michael Sampson lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, including
The Tiny Seed,
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, and his most well-known title,
The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart, before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for
TheNew York Times and later as art director for an advertising agency.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold nearly fifty million copies and has been translated into sixty-five languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle lives in the Florida Keys.
Steven Kellogg is the beloved illustrator of more than one hundred books for children including
Clorinda and
Clorinda Takes Flight, and he has been awarded the Regina Medal for his entire body of work. Mr. Kellogg works in an old barn overlooking Lake Champlain in Essex, New York, where he lives with his family.