Biographical note

Pamela Green has her Master’s in Teaching from the University of San Francisco. She is the Community Programs Coordinator at San Francisco Ballet, bringing dance and music into SFUSD public schools and afterschool programs with Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the YMCA. She hosts family workshops and sensory friendly programming for the special needs community, provides professional development for educators, and coordinates local arts community events. She has been an elementary educator since 2008. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wonderful son and enjoys hiking, cooking, reading historical fiction, traveling, fly-fishing, animals, photography, and ballet. Cheryl Crouthamel has been a children’s book illustrator since 2004 when she retired from the New York Police Department. She specializes in whimsical illustrations—and wrangling her three kids. She lives in New Jersey.