This Is How a Ball Rolls

Heather Tekavec discovered while working as a preschool teacher that children’s books were a lot more fun than adult books. In addition to picture books, such as Arnold the Super-ish Hero, Different? Same! and Stop, Thief!, Heather enjoys writing short stories, articles and poems for children’s magazines, such as CRICKET, Chirp, Highlights and Totline, and has delved a few times into writing scripts and directing live theater. She lives in Cloverdale, British Columbia.

Suharu Ogawa is a Toronto-based illustrator originally from Japan. Formally trained in art history and cultural anthropology, she worked for several years as a university librarian until her passion for illustration called her out of that career and into the pursuit of a lifelong dream. Since then, Suharu has done various work for magazines, children’s books, public art projects and more. She teaches illustration at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario.