Born and raised in Queens, New York, Sylvia Chen has also lived and worked in Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Paris, and Tokyo, and now resides in Essex County, New Jersey. As the author of picture books TRICKY CHOPSTICKS (illus. Fanny Liem; Atheneum/Simon & Schuster) and SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A Lunar New Year Story (illus. Thai My Phuong; Flamingo Books/Penguin Random House), Sylvia loves crafting picture books that spark kids’ interest in STEAM and creative thinking. She is a

Growing up, Kelly Lee’s nose was always stuck in a book. Now, her favorite thing to do is read with her kids. Kelly writes picture books full of humor and heart (and if she can subtly weave in a curriculum connection, it makes her teacher-heart happy). She’s a Children’s Book Academy Graduate, SCBWI Member, 2022 PB Party Finalist, 2021 #PitchMe Finalist and member of two critique groups. As a teacher and Educational Curriculum Designer, she creates lessons and resources for

As a child, Julie Danneberg wanted to be a teacher and, as an adult, she became one, teaching first in a K-6 special education program and later in middle school language arts. As a teacher, Julie read lots of picture books to her students. After seeing how much they loved them, she decided to try to write some of her own. Now, years later, her siccessful picture book First Day Jitters, about an elementary school teacher and her class, was followed by nine more books in the J