KYO MACLEAR is the critically acclaimed author of many children's books including Bloom and Julia, Child, both illustrated by Julie Morstad, as well as Yak and Dove, which won the 2017 IODE Jean Throop Book Award, The Liszts, The Wish Tree, The Good Little Book, which was shortlisted for a Blue Spruce Award, and Virginia Wolf, which won the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated Book. She is also the Trillium Award--winning author of Birds Art Life. Kyo lives in Toronto with her family.
JULIE MORSTAD is an award-winning illustrator and artist. She has written the children's books Today and How To. Her beautiful illustrations can be found in When Green Becomes Tomatoes; When I Was Small; This is Sadie; Julia, Child; Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova and Bloom. Living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Julie considers Gyo Fujikawa one of her biggest influences.
