Melissa Sweet (
www.melissasweet.net) has
illustrated many award winning books, including
A
River of Words (Eerdmans), a 2009 Caldecott Honor
book, and
A Splash of Red (Knopf), an NCTE
Orbis Pictus Award winner and a Sibert Honor book. She
also wrote and illustrated
Balloons Over
Broadway (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), winner of the
2012 Sibert Medal and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award.
Melissa lives in Maine.