? Brian Crane's, Pickles, appears in over 800 newspapers worldwide. He has been nominated three times for the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year award by the National Cartoonists Society and won in 2013. Pickles has been nominated twice as Best Comic Strip, a prestigious award it won in 2001. Crane lives in Sparks, Nevada, with his wife and family, which consists of seven children and eight grandchildren.

? Dianne Young is a retired educational assistant in an elementary school, a mother, a writer, and a yodeller. She was born and raised in Saskatchewan, and she has been writing for children for over twenty years. Her first book, The Abaleda Voluntary Firehouse Band, was published in 1990. Her fifth book, Dear Flyary, won the 2014 Saskatchewan Book Award for Children's Literature