Seven Skies All at Once

Ted Kooser was the US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006 and won a Pulitzer Prize for his book of poems Delights & Shadows. He is the coauthor, with Connie Wanek, of Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play among Figures of Speech, illustrated by Richard Jones, which won a Cybils Award for poetry. Ted Kooser's picture books include Bag in the Wind and The Bell in the Bridge, both illustrated by Barry Root; House Held Up by Trees, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, illustrated by Jon Klassen; and Mr.

Posey's New Glasses, an International Literacy Association Children's Choice, illustrated by Daniel Duncan. Ted Kooser lives in Garland, Nebraska. Matt Myers is the illustrator of the Infamous Ratsos chapter book series by Kara LaReau as well as the picture books Lily Leads the Way by Margi Preus, E-I-E-I-O: How Old MacDonald Got His Farm (with a Little Help from a Hen) by Judy Sierra, and Hazel the Handful by Jamie Michalak.

Matt Myers lives in North Carolina.