Cari Best has written many award-winning picture books, including Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; and My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay, described by the New York Times as “refreshing” and “exciting.” She has received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writers Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for Outstanding Picture Book text, the Amelia Bloomer Award, and the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award. Cari lives in Connecticut.
