Jill Esbaum is the award-winning author of more than 65 children's books, both fiction and nonfiction. Recent titles include It's Corn Picking Time! , Polecat Has a Superpower , Stinkbird Has a Superpower , Parrotfish Has a Superpower , Bird Girl - How Gene Stratton Porter Shared Her Love of Nature with the World , and Jack Knight's Brave Fight . She is also the author of a graphic early reader series, Thunker & Cluck, as well as a board book series, Be Bold, featuring baby a

Susan Hughes is a Canadian author of many traditionally published children's books from picture books to YA, fiction and non-fiction. Her most recent books are the hi-lo MG “junior rom com” Miss Match (Orca, 2025) and picture books Hooray For Trucks (Owlkids Books, 2022) and Same Here: The Differences We Share (Owlkids, 2022). Susan is also a freelance writer, editor, and story coach, specializing in working with children's book writers. A member of SCBWI, Canscaip, and In

Robin Currie spent her library career in the children’s department, where she could Baa, Moo, and Honk without getting shushed. Her writing engages children not only in noisemaking but jumping, waving, and face making. So do her sermons. Despite her incessant need to wiggle, Robin earned a Master’s Degree in Library Science and worked in public libraries before answering the call to seminary. She holds a Master’s of Divinity and Doctorate of Preaching, and remains active in