Dashka Slater has written many picture books, including Escargot, which won the Wanda Gag Book Award; A Book for Escargot; Love, Escargot; Escargot and the Search for Spring; Baby Shoes; and The Antlered Ship, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection and received four starred reviews. Her New York Times–bestselling nonfiction young adult novel The 57 Bus won several accolades including the Stonewall Book Award and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Sydney Hanson is a children’s book illustrator living in Sierra Madre, California. She works in a combination of traditional and digital media to create her illustrations—her favorites are watercolor and colored pencil. She loves the outdoors and is a certified naturalist who spends most of her spare time poking around the woods with her Labrador retriever, Cash. To see all of her latest animals and illustrations, follow her on Instagram.
Award-winning journalist
Dashka Slater has written for such publications as
The New York Times Magazine,
Newsweek,
Salon, and
Mother Jones. Her
New York Times-bestselling young-adult true crime narrative,
The 57 Bus, has received numerous accolades, including the Stonewall Book Award, the California Book Award, and a
Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. It was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist and an
LA Times Book Award Finalist, in addition to receiving four starred reviews and being named to more than 20 separate lists of the year’s best books, including ones compiled by
The Washington Post, the New York Public Library, and
School Library Journal. In 2021,
The 57 Bus was named to
TIME magazine’s list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. The author of fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, Dashka teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She lives and writes in Oakland, California.
