Sandra Bradley isa chocolate lover, a clinical social worker and therapist, and a children’sbook author. Her first picture book, Henry Holton Takes the Ice, was afinalist for the OLA Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award and the MaineChickadee Reader’s Choice Award. Born in Toronto, Sandra earned her Bachelor ofArts (Honours) and her Master of Arts at Queen’s University in Kingston,Ontario, then earned her Master of Education (Counselling) from the Universityof Auckland in New Zealand. Today Sandra is back in the Kingston area where shelives on the beautiful Rideau Canal with her New Zealander husband, Grant, andtheir three teenage kids. Sandra has yet to temper chocolate successfully, butshe’s finally nailed chocolate brownie pie.

Gabrielle Grimard transformed her love of design intoa career in illustration over the course of her studies at Concordia Universityand the University of Quebec. Her 2020 title The Library Bus won theMiddle East Book Award and was a finalist for the Governor General’s LiteraryAward, among many other honors. In 2018, StolenWords won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award and was afinalist for the TD Canadian Children’s Book Award. Not My Girl was a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Gabrielle’screativity has been applied to children’s publishing, advertising, andeducational contexts. She lives in Waterville, Quebec.