Brenda Maier is a public school teacher, a gifted education specialist, and the author of the highly acclaimed picture books The Little Red Fort and The Little Blue Bridge. When she isn't writing, Brenda enjoys traveling with her family, baking peanut-free cookies, and watching her five children build amazing creations from found materials. She lives near Tulsa, Oklahoma. You can learn more about her work at brendamaier.com.
Sonia Sanchez paints with both traditional and digital brushes, using layers of texture in her work to evoke emotion and movement. She is the illustrator of The Little Red Fort and The Little Blue Bridge by Brenda Maier, Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away by Meg Medina, and other acclaimed picture books. Sonia lives with her husband and young children in Barcelona, Spain.

"The contrasting styles of Ruby and her brothers will tickle younger children, who will cheer for the project's outcome. In charcoal pencil, pen, gouache, and digital brushes, Sanchez is at her vigorous best here, serving up dynamic postures and poses in the characters, and such vivid facial expressions that even prereaders will know what's going on. . . watch Ruby, again, come in first, but with grace." --School Library Journal

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Pub date: 2024-09-03

Length: 40 pages