Karim Alrawi is the author of the award-winning picture book The Girl Who Lost her Smile. He is the editor-in-chief of Arabica, the English language magazine for the Arab-American community. He is also playwright-in-residence at Meadow Brook Theatre in Michigan. He has over 30 professionally-produced plays to his credit and has won many national and international awards for his writing. Bee Willey has illustrated over 20 children’s books with co-editions in Canada, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Korea, and the US. Bee illustrated the award-winning The Zoo at Night written by Michael Rosen. In 2004, she was short-listed for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Prize.