Jean E. Syswerda is a former editor and associate publisher for Zondervan Bibles. She helped produce such bestselling Bibles as the NIV Women’s Devotional Bible. General editor of the Women of Faith Study Bible and A Mom's Ordinary Day Bible Study Series, she is the author of the Women's Devotional Guide to the Bible and coauthor of the bestselling Read With Me Bible. Jean and her husband, John, have three children and eight grandchildren. They live in Allendale, Michigan.

Daniel Howarth has created greeting cards and worked as an animator for King Rollo Animation. He has illustrated more than one hundred books for publishers around the world. Daniel currently lives in a thatched cottage in England with his wife and two children, as well as a menagerie of dogs, chickens, ducks, and wild rabbits.