Naseem Hrab is the award-winning author of many stories for children, including Otis & Peanut, How to Party Like a Snail, Weekend Dad, which was a Governor General's Literary Award finalist, and The Sour Cherry Tree, which won a Governor General's Literary Award. Her work has been translated into several languages, including Turkish, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and Catalan, and has been praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the CBC, NPR, Bank Street College and more. She worked as a librarian for a time and currently works in children's publishing. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. Kelly Collier has been drawing since she was little, and studied illustration in college. She is the author-illustrator of the Steve the Horse series and The Imposter, and the illustrator of the Sloth and Squirrel books, the Izzy series and How to Party Like a Snail. She has an identical twin sister and an older brother and lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her husband and daughter.
