Ann Stott is the author of Want to Play Trucks?, illustrated by Bob Graham; What to Do When You’re Sent to Your Room, illustrated by Stephen Gilpin; and Always and I’ll Be There, both illustrated by Matt Phelan. She is also an art director and children’s book designer. Ann Stott lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Andrew Joyner is an internationally published illustrator and author. His books include Bear Make Den by Jane Godwin and Michael Wagner and The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky. He lives in South Australia.
After Nana’s headstrong ways result in an injury (“She took a tumble at my basketball game trying to get a front-row seat”), he becomes her companion and caretaker. And that really is the heart of the tale: how we love those closest to our hearts, even when they’re far from perfect.
—Publishers Weekly