David Soman was born in New York and graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He is an illustrator and also teaches courses at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Some of his published credits include Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy, Splash! and Poems of Our Watery World. His awards include: Ezra Jack Keats/Unicef Award, Coretta Scott King Award, Aileen & Manuel Torres Graphics Award, Catherine Lolliard Wolfe Award, William Allan White Children's Book Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Jacky Davis and her husband David Soman are author of the Ladybug Girl Series of books which are inspired by their daughter and son. Their title in this series, Ladybug Girl and The Dress-Up Dilemma made The New York Times Best Seller List.