Mac Barnett is a New York Timesβbestselling author of more than ten picture books, including The Terrible Two as well as 2013 Caldecott Honor Book Extra Yarn, which won the 2012 Boston GlobeβHorn Book Award for Excellence in Picture Books. He was born in 1982 to nonβfarmers in a California farming community. Now he lives in Berkeley.
Brian Biggs is the illustrator of approximately one bazillion children's books, three of which he also wrote. Brian creates his pictures in an old, one-story garage studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife and teenage kids nearby in a three-story house, right next to some very noisy neighbors.