They're Heroes Too: A Celebration of Community

Pat Brisson has written 20 books for young readers, including The Summer My Father Was Ten; Sometimes We Were Brave; Before We Eat; Common Critters; and Tummy Time Friends. She is a former schoolteacher, school librarian, and public librarian.

Anait Semirdzhyan grew up in a multicultural family and lived in several countries with diverse cultures before settling in the Seattle area with her husband and twin daughters. Her illustrations begin as pencil sketches on cold-press watercolor paper. She then inks the outlines, paints with watercolors, and scans the illustrations in order to edit them in Photoshop. She is the illustrator of The Arabic Quilt and other works that can be viewed at www.anaitsart.com.