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Candace Fleming is the author of more than thirty distinguished books for children including Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera , winner of the Sibert Medal for most distinguished informational book, and Cubs in the Tub: The True Story of the Bronx Zoos First Woman Zookeeper.

Her book The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh received the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction.

She lives in Chicago.

Matthew Cordell is the Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator of Wolf in the Snow and Hello Neighbor!: The Kind and Caring World of Mister Rogers , and the illustrator of numerous highly acclaimed childrens books including Philip C.

Steads books The Only Fish in the Sea and Special Delivery , which was a Washington Post Best Book.

He wrote and illustrated Another Brother , Wish , and Hello! Hello! , a New York Times Notable Childrens Book.

Matthew lives near Chicago with his wife, author Julie Halpern, and their two children.