Sue Fliess is the award-winning, bestselling author of over sixty children’s books including the 10-book Magical Creatures and Crafts series, the Kid Scientist series, Greta Green Builds a Submarine, Sadie Sprocket Builds a Rocket, Octopus Acrobatics, Cicada Symphony, Rumble and Roar, and many Little Golden Books. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into many languages. Fliess’s books have received accolades and awards from the Junior Library Guild, ALA Notable, Bank Street College, Virginia Readers’ Choice, Texas 2x2, Orange Blossom Nonfiction, and have been featured in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, on Reading Rainbow Live, and chosen for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in the US and Australia.

Simona Sanfilippo is a children’s book illustrator who lives and works near Turin, the magical town in the north of Italy. Lots of green hills and mountains have surrounded her since childhood and both of them have a big place in her heart, a northern one that loves oceans and snowy lands too. When she lets her pencils have a break, she loves reading about Celtic legends, creating cute handmade creatures, and having a walk into the woods discovering trees and Mother Earth’s gifts.