Lenora Todaro

About the Author

Lenora Todaro is a New York City Park Ranger and the author of Sea Lions in The Parking Lot: Animals on the Move in Time of Pandemic (Minerva 2021), a Junior Library Guild Selection, a Bank Street Best Book of 2022, and shortlisted for the Green Earth Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, where she loves to greet horseshoe crabs as they emerge from the waters of New York Harbor.

Sally Deng is the author-illustrator of Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII and Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun. She is also the illustrator of Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams, written by Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson; How to Spot a Mermaid, written by Jane Yolen; and The Dreams I’ll Dream Tonight, written by Sarah Ruhl. Sally’s art has been recognized by multiple illustration annuals and exhibited in galleries across the U.S. She lives in Los Angeles.