Julie es estadounidense. En 2013 fue reconocida con el premio Ezra Jack Keats New Writer, el cual fue establecido en 1985 para estimular el trabajo de los nuevos autores de libros ilustrados. Además de este libro, es autora de If You Want to See a Whale. Alma and How She Got Her Name (Candlewick Press) fue su primer libro ilustrado como autora e ilustradora y recibió el premio Caldecott Honor 2019. También es ilustrador de La Princesa and the Pea (escrito por Susan M. Elya, Putnam/Penguin), ganador de la Medalla Pura Belpré de Ilustración 2018, y Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (escrito por Kevin Noble Maillard, Roaring Brook Press), ganador de la Medalla Robert F. Sibert 2020. Nacío en la bulliciosa ciudad de Lima, la capital del Perú. Ahora vive en el bosque del este de Connecticut.

Molly Schaar Idle is an American children's book illustrator, author and animator. In 2014, she was awarded a Caldecott Honor for her picture book Flora and the Flamingo.

Julie is American. In 2013 she was recognized with the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, which was established in 1985 to encourage the work of new picture book authors. In addition to this book, she is the author of If You Want to See a Whale. Alma and How She Got Her Name (Candlewick Press) was her debut picture book as an author-illustrator, and was awarded the 2019 Caldecott Honor. She is also the illustrator of La Princesa and the Pea (written by Susan M. Elya, Putnam/Penguin), winner of the 2018 Pura Belpré Medal for Illustration, and Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (written by Kevin Noble Maillard, Roaring Brook Press), winner of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Medal. She was born in the busy city of Lima, the capital of Peru. Now she lives in the woods in Eastern Connecticut.