Megan Hoyt is the winner of the 2017 SCBWI Work in Progress Award
and serves as Membership Coordinator for the SCBWI Carolinas
region. Megan's debut picture book, Bartali's Bicycle
(February 2021) has garnered many accolades, including being
selected as a National Jewish Book Award finalist and placed on the
Master List for the Texas Bluebonnet Award. Megan has three
more non-fiction picture books forthcoming, also with
HarperCollins: The Greatest Song of All: How Violinist Isaac Stern
United the World to Save Carnegie Hall, A Grand Idea: How William
J. Wilgus Created The Grand Central Terminal, and Kati’s Tiny
Messengers: Dr. Kati Kariko and the Fight Against
Covid-19. When she is not writing, she loves to swim, walk
beside the Catawba river, and read. She lives in Charlotte,
North Carolina.
Christine Battuz received her master of fine arts degree from the
Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia, Italy. She has illustrated more
than sixty children’s books, including Jackie and Jesse and Joni
and Jae, by Christine Barash. She teaches art to adults and
children. She was born in France and now lives in Quebec, Canada.
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