Katey Howes (1977-2024) was an award-winning poet and author of picture books including Woven of the World; Rissy No Kissies; A Poem Grows Inside You, a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book; and Be a Maker, a recipient of the International Literacy Association's Social Justice Literature Award. She was a passionate crafter, a frequent contributor to parenting, literacy, and STEAM websites, and she especially loved working to restore native plants to the woods and wetlands around her Pennsylvania home. <p/>Beth Krommes received the Caldecott Medal in 2009 for The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson. She has illustrated a number of other highly acclaimed picture books, including Blue on Blue by Dianne White and Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman. Beth lives with her family in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Visit her at BethKrommes.com.