Alison Hughes is an award-winning author of many books for children and young adults, including The Silence Slips In, winner of the R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature and Hit the Ground Running, a nominee for the Governor General's Literary Award. Her books have been nominated eleven times for children's choice awards across Canada, and her short stories have appeared in anthologies and have been finalists for the CBC Nonfiction Prize and the Writers' Union of Canada Short Fiction Competition. She lives in Edmonton with her family.

Brady Sato is a Japanese Canadian illustrator who specializes in digital illustration. They developed an appreciation for visual storytelling from watching TV shows and reading manga as a child in Japan. Brady studied visual narrative at The Art Department (TAD) in Austin, Texas, with Pixar artist Kelsey Mann. They are the creator of the popular webcomic All That You Are and their first picture book, Kunoichi Bunny, was named a 2022 New York Public Library's Best Book for Kids. Brady lives in Canmore, Alberta.

"A book for all the shy, sensitive children who find themselves seeking the safety of isolation...validates the very real anxieties children may have while at the same time suggesting that it's not all bad out there on the other side of the box. This is a lovely contemplative picture book for young children--both those living inside and outside the box."-- "Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) Canadian Children's Book News"

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Pub date: 2025-09-16

Length: 32 pages