Helaine Becker Author

Helaine Becker is the bestselling author of more than 90 books for children and young adults, including the No. 1 Canadian national bestseller, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree (Scholastic Canada) and the international bestseller, Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 (Henry Holt). Her books have won multiple awards and been translated into ten languages. A New York native, Helaine has lived in Toronto, Canada for more than 20 years. She has also written Gottika for Green Bean Books. Omer Hoffmann is an Israeli illustrator. His diverse body of work includes illustrations for newspapers, children's books and comics worldwide. Omer's illustrations were selected for the Hans Christian Andersen Illustration Honour List 2016 for the book, Hardil Lo Ragill. His work on The Boy who Mailed His Family received the Ben Yizhak Merit Award for Picture Book illustrations in 2020. He lives in Givatayim with his wife and their two children. He also illustrated The Sages of Chelm and the Moon, published by Green Bean Books.