About The Author
Joshua David Stein is a writer, editor, and podcast host in New York City. He is the editor-at-large at Fatherly and host of The Fatherly Podcast. He is the author of multiple adult nonfiction books, including Food & Beer (Phaidon), Epicurean Journeys (Rizzoli), and To Me, He Was Just Dad (Artisan), and is the coauthor of Notes from a Young Black Chef (Knopf). He has also written several children's books, including Can I Eat That?; Brick, Who Found Herself in Architecture; and The Ball Book (Phaidon). More recently, he's written The Invisible Alphabet, Solitary Animals: Introverts of the Wild, and The Catalogue of Hugs (Rise x Penguin Workshop). He recently founded The Band Books, a band that performs children's books to music. A longtime media fixture, Stein has been the editor-in-chief of BlackBook magazine, the editor at Black Ink, a senior editor at Departures, the senior editor of Eater, and the editor-at-large at Out magazine and Tasting Table. He is currently a contributing editor at Food & Wine. Stein lives in Brooklyn with his two young sons.Ariela Rudy Zaltzman is a multilingual and multicultural children's literature expert. She is the translator of several books and is also the coauthor of the flight anxiety journal Why Are We Inside a Cloud? Ariela was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Jing Li is a freelance illustrator living and working in Beijing, China. She started making art at age four and has been drawing ever since. In 2013, she moved to the US to study and now holds two MFA degrees from SCAD and MICA. After she moved back to China, the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, the epicenter of which was just two hours from her home in Yichang. During the lockdown, she created art for the Washington Post about pandemic life in China, humanizing the difficult experience. Her other work has been inspired by Hutong culture and by her city’s history and fashion. When not working, she spends time with her dogs, taking them for walks. With her art, she hopes to leave behind moments of her life for others to discover for years to come.