Jessica Love is an actor and the author-illustrator of Julián Is a Mermaid, her debut picture book, which received the Stonewall Book Award, the Bologna Ragazzi Award, and the Klaus Flugge Prize, as well as Julián at the Wedding and A Bed of Stars. She has a BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as a graduate degree from Juilliard, and has appeared in plays both on and off Broadway. Jessica Love lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

Visually inventive. . . . reassuring verse builds with welcoming anticipation . . . while illustrations reveal the purpose of the adult's handiwork: a cozy quilt to be shared by caregiver and new arrival. It's a warmth-filled portrait that binds the loving act of making a quilt to one experience of growing a family.
--Publishers Weekly

In her debut picture book, Sullivan, acclaimed for her YA fiction, brings a gentle, lyrical voice to this contemplation of motherhood, sensitively illuminated with loose watercolor washes and a soft pastel palette by celebrated illustrator Love (Julián Is a Mermaid). . . . A lovely and reassuring read-aloud for a child anticipating a new sibling, this intimate portrait of a mother's bond with her unborn child will also resonate with expectant parents.
--Booklist

Exquisitely vibrant, a celebration of the beauty of creation in plant, craft, and human form.
--Kirkus Reviews