Jean Reidyโs bestselling and award-winning picture books have earned their spots as favorites among readers and listeners of all ages and from all over the world. Her books include Truman and Sylvie, both illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins. She is a three-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, a Parentsโ Choice Gold Award winner, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor winner, and recognized on โBest ofโ lists by School Library Journal, The New York Times, NPR, and Amazon. Jean writes from her home in Colorado where she lives right across the street from her neighborhood libraryโฆwhich she visits nearly every day. Visit her at JeanReidy.com.
Lucy Ruth Cummins is an author, illustrator, and art director of childrenโs books. She was happily paired with Jean Reidy for both Truman, which was named a New York Times Best Childrenโs Book of 2019, and Sylvie. She is also the author-illustrator of Stumpkin, Vampenguin, Dalmartian: A Mars Roverโs Story, Our Pool, and A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals. Lucy has swum in creeks, streams, gorges, rivers, swimming holes, pools (above- and in-ground), lakes (both Great and Finger), decorative fountains, and oceans. Her very favorite place to swim, however, is at her community pool in Brooklyn with her sons and her neighbors.