SANDOL STODDARD WARBURG authored more than two dozen books, including best-selling children's fiction, religious anthologies, translations, non-fiction works for adults and various articles published in scholarly journals. From her landmark achievement The Hospice Movement that helped launch the concept of hospice care in America, to popular children's books such as The Thinking Book and Turtle Time, her works have been read by millions in English and in foreign translations. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Sandol Stoddard graduated magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and raised four sons in California before moving to Hawaii in 1983. She died in 2018.JACQUELINE CHWAST illustrated over 50 books for children, including The Perilous Pit, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1993.

An almost unbearably lovely vintage illustrated ode to friendship ... one of the tenderest and most touching presents I've ever gotten, from one of my dearest friends ... love - that sweetest, most knotless and untroubled kind - is what radiates from these simple, surprisingly profound verse-like meditations on friendship, illustrated with the kindred sensibility of Chwast's simple yet richly expressive black-and-white line drawings.