Kathleen N. Daly worked as an editor at Golden Books in the 1960s. She wrote many popular Little Golden Books including The Good Humor Man, Jingle Bells, and Richard Scarry's Colors.

J. P. Miller (1913-2004) illustrated many Golden Book titles from the 1940s through the 1970s, including The Little Red Hen. Before becoming a children’s book illustrator, Miller had worked in the Walt Disney Studio’s elite Character Modeling Department, creating characters, such as the dwarf Dopey, for Disney’s first feature film, Snow White. He later designed the character of the toy maker Geppetto for Pinocchio.