Stacy McAnulty is the author of more than twenty books for children, including the middle grade novels The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl--which was an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and received three starred reviews--and The World Ends in April. She is also the author of the picture books Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years, Beautiful, Excellent Ed (an Ezra Jack Keats New Author Honor Book), and 101 Reasons Why I'm Not Taking a Bath, just to name a few. She lives in North Carolina with three kids, three dogs, and one husband.

Deborah Hocking has collaborated with Stacy McAnulty on two previous books in the Max Explains Everything series. She is also the illustrator of The Great Henry Hopendower and the nonfiction picture book Build, Beaver, Build! Life at the Longest Beaver Dam. She lives in Portland, Oregon, in a hundred-year-old cottage that she fixed up with her husband, Jay. Learn more at deborahhockingillustration.com.