Beth Guckenberger has lived among and loved children from around the world. An author and ministry leader, she serves with Back2Back Ministries, an international orphan care organization. Beth speaks regularly at conferences, youth gatherings, and churches, and loves playing games and traveling with her large family.

Irina Mileo was born in Tuscany and lives there with her family, including her strange cat Sir Boo and her young daughter. Trained as an engineer, Irina now constructs imaginative, colorful worlds for children, just like the worlds that so inspired her as a child.