Lori Mortensen is the author of Chicken Lily, Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg, and Cindy Moo. She lives with her husband in California.
Matt Phelan has illustrated many books for young readers, including Xander’s Panda Party by Linda Sue Park and Marilyn’s Monster by Michelle Knudson. He has also written and illustrated a number of graphic novels, such as Snow White, a New York Times bestseller, and The Storm in the Barn, winner of the Scott O’Dell Award.
Lori Mortensen is the author of more than three dozen books that include fiction and nonfiction, picture books, early readers, first graphic novels, and middle-grade nonfiction. Her most recent picture book Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg was chosen as a Bank Street Best Book of 2014 and an Amazon Best Book of the Year.
www.lorimortensen.com.
Matt Phelan was born and raised in the Philadelphia area, studied film and theater in college, and held a variety of jobs. Since 2004 he's been drawing pictures for a living, for such books as
What Are You Waiting For? and
Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook.