M.H. Clark is a poet and writer who has received multiple awards, including the Washington State Book Award and two Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. She has traveled the world and lived in many wonderful places—but she believes she belongs most of all in a little house with a large library, someplace where the forest meets the sea. Katie Vernon is an illustrator who has spent most of her life in the Midwest but whose heart belongs in the mountains. Much of her creative inspiration comes from being a florist, working with alpacas, and living on a bus. She loves working with inky paints and then arranging and adding detail digitally. Katie’s art has appeared in Anthropologie, Hallmark, and the Washington Post.

M.H. Clark is a poet and writer who has received multiple awards, including the Washington State Book Award and two Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. She has traveled the world and lived in many wonderful places—but she believes she belongs most of all in a little house with a large library, someplace where the forest meets the sea. Katie Vernon is an illustrator who has spent most of her life in the Midwest but whose heart belongs in the mountains. Much of her creative inspiration comes from being a florist, working with alpacas, and living on a bus. She loves working with inky paints and then arranging and adding detail digitally. Katie’s art has appeared in Anthropologie, Hallmark, and the Washington Post.

M.H. Clark is a poet and writer who has received multiple awards, including the Washington State Book Award and two Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. She has traveled the world and lived in many wonderful places—but she believes she belongs most of all in a little house with a large library, someplace where the forest meets the sea. Katie Vernon is an illustrator who has spent most of her life in the Midwest but whose heart belongs in the mountains. Much of her creative inspiration comes from being a florist, working with alpacas, and living on a bus. She loves working with inky paints and then arranging and adding detail digitally. Katie’s art has appeared in Anthropologie, Hallmark, and the Washington Post.