Lezlie Evans is the award-winning author of numerous picture books, including
Can You Count Ten Toes? (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and
Finding Christmas (Albert Whitman). Scholastic Book Clubs/Fairs has picked up several of her titles, including
Rain Song and
Snow Dance (both Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and
The Bunnies' Picnic (Disney/Hyperion). Lezlie is an avid speaker and proponent for early childhood literacy, and a member of the Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC. The inspiration for
Daddies Do came from watching her six children wrestle, read, and eat pancakes (minus the ants) with their daddy. Visit her at Lezlieevans.com. She lives in Brambleton, VA.
Elisa Ferro is an Italian children's illustrator based in Padua, where she lives with her lovely husband and two funny cats. She studied at the University of Architecture and Visual Art in Venice, and at the International School of Illustration in Sarmede. Elisa's playful illustrations are full of charming details and sweet character expressions. She creates her artwork primarily in gouache, colored pencil, and ink before tweaking digitally in Photoshop. This will be her debut picture book in the US.