Laura Knowles has a background in children's publishing and is the author of We Travel So Far, We Build Our Homes, The Coral Kingdom and It Starts with a Seed, which was awarded the 2017 Margaret Mallett Award for Children's Non-fiction. Vivian Mineker is a Taiwanese American illustrator from Taipei and Portland, Oregon, currently working out of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Vivian uses watercolour and coloured pencils to begin her pieces, then polishes them digitally, creating a blend of traditional textures with a modern twist. She is the illustrator of The Secret Life of Trees and Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, among others.