Jarrett J. Krosoczka is a two-time winner of the Children’s Choice Book Award for the Third to Fourth Grade Book of the Year, an Eisner award nominee, and is the author and/or illustrator of more than thirty books for young readers. His work includes several picture books, the Lunch Lady graphic novels, and Platypus Police Squad middle-grade novel series. Jarrett has given two TED Talks, both of which have been curated to the main page of TED.com and have collectively accrued more than two million views online. He is also the host of The Book Report with JJK on SiriusXM’s Kids Place Live, a weekly segment celebrating books, authors, and reading. Jarrett lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and children, and their pugs, Ralph and Frank.

Amy Ignatow is the author and illustrator of The Popularity Papers series and The Mighty Odds, the first book in the Odds series. The first book in The Popularity Papers series was selected as a top-ten title for 2011 by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Project, was a 2010 Gold Award winner by the National Parenting Publications Association, and was selected by the Chicago Public Library as one of the 2011 “Best of the Best” books. Amy lives in Philadelphia with her family, eight fish, and a cat named Dr. Josephine Frimplepants.

Jeffrey Brown is a cartoonist and author of the bestselling Darth Vader and Son and its sequels Vader’s Little Princess, Goodnight Darth Vader, and Darth Vader and Friends as well as the Star Wars: Jedi Academy series. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two sons. Despite being a lifelong Star Wars fan, he still can’t use the Force, but sometimes he likes to imagine that he can.