About Jyoti Rajan Gopal Books
Jyoti Rajan Gopal is an award-winning picture book author, mom and forever kindergarten teacher. She writes stories - fiction and nonfiction - of identity, community and belonging, themes that speak to her heart, that reflect her multiple identities. Growing up, she lived in Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, India and China. She now lives in New York with her husband, in a quirky old Victorian, where they raised their two daughters. Alexandra Cook is an illustrator and concept designer from Atlanta, Georgia. Having grown up outdoors, she is driven by the fantasies that filled her days of backwoods exploration and searches for adventure. And she uses her love of real-life places to create new worlds and stories for their inhabitants. She is the illustrator of Arctic Adventure and Mo O'Hara's Hush, Little Rocket. She is currently based in Austin, Texas.
