Following a long career in book publishing, Betsy Groban is a correspondent for The Boston Globe and writes a column on reading for Publishers Weekly’s Children’s Bookshelf. She is also the book review editor of the Jane Austen Society, a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and serves on the advisory board of Brandeis University Press. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has two remarkable grown daughters, two awesome (equally grown) sons-in-law, and three magnificent grandchildren, one of whom is called Pia. She’s the author of Pizza for Pia and Pow for Pia.

Allison Steinfeld grew up in Connecticut where she spent hours getting lost in her library books. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her two very fluffy cats. When not providing essential head scratches and belly rubs, she finds time to illustrate books like the Wait! What? series and the Kid Legends series.