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Augustus Heeren Stein Author & Illustrator

Joshua David Stein is a Brooklyn-based author, journalist, and performer. He’s the editor-at-large at Fatherly and the host of The Fatherly Podcast, and an author of children’s books such as The Invisible Alphabet, Can I Eat That?, and Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture, and adult books such as Cooking for Your Kids and To Me, He Was Just Dad. He was once the restaurant critic for the New York Observer and a food columnist for The Village Voice. Joshua is a founding member of the Band Books, an improvisational music group that performs children’s book sing-alouds. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his two sons and his one dog. www.joshuadavidstein.com.
 
Augustus Heeren Stein is in the fifth grade. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. This is his first book.
 

Elizabeth Lilly is a children's book author and illustrator, animated filmmaker, and art educator. She has written and illustrated the picture books GERALDINE (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan, 2018) and LET ME FIX YOU A PLATE (Holiday House, 2021). Elizabeth was raised in a mixed family, with a Colombian mom and American dad. She and her three sisters grew up speaking two languages and living in two worlds. She writes and draws about the places she has lived, and the places that live in her. Elizabeth writes and directs her own animated films, and teaches drawing and illustration as an adjunct professor at Towson University. She lives in a little old house in the little old city of Baltimore, Maryland, with her fluffy white dog, Ponyo. https://www.elizabeth-lilly.com/.