In addition to writing the best-selling _x001c_ Freckleface Strawberry_x001d_ , Moore is author of the book series which also includes _x001c_ Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully_x001d_ . A third book is due out in 2011.

LeUyen Pham is the illustrator of over fifty children's books, with titles including the best-selling "Freckleface Strawberry" series with Julianne Moore, God's Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as well as her own self-authored Big Sister, Little Sister.

Mo Willems is all about letting imaginations run wild. He is the beloved artist and author behind #1 NYT bestselling and Caldecott Honors-awarded picture books like Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Katie founded Classics on a Shoestring on the London Fringe in the late 1980s, directing Gorki s Vassa Zheleznova, Arden of Faversham and Euripides' Women of Troy (Gate Theatre, both won Time Out Awards); Live Like Pigs (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs), and

Howard Goodall is an award-winning composer of choral music, stage musicals, film and TV scores, is well known as a TV and radio broadcaster, and from 2007-11 was England’s first ever , leading a programme (Sing Up) to improve the provision of group singing for all primary-age children. His

Burton Lane, long one of popular music’s most revered songwriters, is one of the few American composers to have proved equally adept and successful in writing for both Broadway and motion pictures.

E. Y. (Yip) Harburg (1896-1981), in a career spanning over fifty years, was known as “Broadway’s social conscience.” A master lyricist, poet and book writer, Yip was always dedicated to social justice.