Tonya Bolden is a researcher, writer, editor, and publisher, with a deep passion for history and historymakers. Bolden has written more than 20 books for children and young adults, including biographies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and George Washington Carver, Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (winner of a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award), and How to Build a Museum — the story behind the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Bolden’s thorough research enriches all of her books. She transforms facts into compelling stories that inspire and challenge her readers to learn more. As a child, Bolden thought that one day she would be a teacher, and now she is — teaching young people through her many books.

Andrea Beaty is the author of the best-selling STEAM-themed picture books about curious kids who love asking questions, inventing, and making things: Iggy Peck, Architect; Rosie Revere, Engineer; and Ada Twist, Scientist. She has also written a rhyming series for very young readers starring Ted the bear, and funny chapter books for middle grade readers (Dorko the Magnificent, Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies series). Curiosity, creativity, innovation and persistence are recurring themes in her children’s books.