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Samantha Montgomerie is an author who loves writing for young people. She has written a number of educational readers, middle grade fiction and poetry. She has numerous poems published for adults, found in various anthologies and literary journals. She has worked for over 25 years as an English teacher, and loves seeing young people engrossed in great stories. She lives in New Zealand, where she likes to wander, letting the salt-laced air inspire great plotlines and poetry. Jiarui Jiang is an illustrator and storyteller based in China. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with an MA in Illustration, and her work revolves around themes of nature, food, and more recently, beautiful insects. She loves to create children’s books based on the world as she remembers it from her childhood perspective. Recently she has been exploring the creation of books with materials other than paper, such as: A book with a cover made of clay.