Catherine Thimmesh is an award-winning author, speaker, and creativity educator. Her creative children's nonfiction titles have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Sibert Medal for
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon and a Sibert Honor for
Camp Panda:
Helping Cubs Return to the Wild.
Madam President was a
New York Times Notable book, and her bestselling
Girls Think of Everything:
Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women won the IRA Children's Book Award and was followed by
Girls Solve Everything:
Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Building a Better World. You can watch her discuss the importance of creativity in her TEDx Talk, "Creativity in the Classroom (in 5 minutes or less!)," on YouTube or her website, catherinethimmesh.com. Catherine lives near Minneapolis, in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Shanda McCloskey is the award-winning author and illustrator of STEM-friendly picture books like Doll-
