Laura Numeroff is the author of the best-selling modern classic
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and the popular
What Mommies Do Best and its sequels. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
Lynn Munsinger was born in Massachusetts. She has illustrated more than ninety books for children -- bringing Wodney Wat, Tacky the Penguin, a porcupine named Fluffy, the Teeny Tiny Ghost, and Ogden Nash's Custard the Dragon to charming life. Her watercolor illustrations have been praised for their "classic quality" (Publishers Weekly) and "mix of wry humor and affection" (Booklist).