Elijah Wald es escritor y m�sico con veinte a�os de experiencia reportando sobre los or�genes musicales y sobre la m�sica misma en diferentes regiones del mundo. Fue escritor y asesor para el proyecto de m�ltiples medios del Instituto Smithsonian llamado The Mississippi: River and Song (El R�o Mississippi: el r�o y su m�sica), y tambi�n recibi� un premio por la biograf�a Josh White: Society Blues (Josh White, Blues de la Sociedad). Una sobrevista de su obra se puede conseguir en elijawald.com.Elijah Wald is a writer and musician with twenty years experience covering roots and world music. He was writer and consultant on the Smithsonian multimedia project The… Mississippi: River of Song, and is the author of the award-winning biography Josh White: Society Blues.Paul Showers wrote twenty books for the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including favorites such as What Happens to a Hamburger? and Where Does the Garbage Go? Mr. Showers worked on the Detroit Free Press, the New York Herald Tribune, and for thirty years, the Sunday New York Times.
Wendy Watson is the author and illustrator of Hurray for the Fourth of July. She was raised with seven brothers and sisters on a farm in Vermont, where she received her early education and art training from her mother and father. She studied painting in Truro, Massachusetts, and at the National Academy of Design in New York City. She is the author-illustrator of more than a dozen children's books, including Thanksgiving at Our House, A Valentine for You, and the Clarion edition of Clement C. Moore's The Night Before Christmas. She lives with her family in Vermont.