JULIE MORSTAD is the author and illustrator of a number of acclaimed picture books, including A Face Is a Poem, winner of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, and Time Is a Flower, which was a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, and a finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award, among other honors. She has also illustrated many other stories for children, such as Kate DiCamillo's The Puppets of Spelhorst. Julie lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

"In a whimsical picture book study that's positioned as an homage to Ruth Krauss's A Hole Is to Dig and Remy Charlip's essay 'A Page Is a Door, ' prior collaborators Maclear and Morstad embrace doors as portals to play and possibility. . . . In dialogue with some children's literature greats, the creators meaningfully highlight doors as metaphors for openness." --Publishers Weekly

"Reminiscent in tone and style of the classic A Hole Is to Dig, these two brilliant creators deftly sweep readers into the infinite wonder and potential that awaits behind doors of all kinds." --Lynn Becker, Shelf Awareness

"They are brilliant individually, but each book by Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad together is an open door. . . . The composition of the book can only be called perfect." --Imaginary Elevators