Kate Banks

Kate Banks has written many books for children, among them Max's Words, And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and The Night Worker, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Banks attended Wellesley College and received her master's in history at Columbia University. She lived in Rome for eight years but now lives in the South of France with her husband and two sons. Visit her at katebanksbooks.com.

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Galia Bernstein

Galia Bernstein was born and raised in Israel. She started her career as a designer and cartoonist in the Israeli Army's magazine, and was the art director of two children's magazines and a writer of a monthly column in a computer magazine, before moving to New York to study illustration in Parsons - The New School for Design. Today, she is a full time illustrator and author who also works in textile design and ceramics. Her author/illustrated picture books include I AM A CAT and LEYLA. Galia lives in Brooklyn, NY.