Greg Brown is a singer and songwriter whose songs have been performed by Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Michael Johnson, Shawn Colvin, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. He has also recorded more than a dozen albums and is a two-time Grammy Award nominee. He lives in Douds, Iowa. Mireille Levert is two-time winner of the Governor General's Literature Award in Children's Literature Illustration and, recently, a finalist for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.