Steve Behling would take the red ship, likes Elvis, and sinks in water but swears he is not an alien. Regardless, he’s written the completely bonkers junior novel adaptation of Dora and the Lost City of Gold and the original middle-grade novels Avengers Endgame: The Pirate Angel, the Talking Tree, and Captain Rabbit, and Onward: The Search for the Phoenix Gem, to name a few. Steve lives in a top-secret subterranean lair with his wife, two human children, and threelegged wonder beagle, Loomis.

Arianna Rea slipped into Disney movies as a child. With the help of her magical friends, she managed to find the keys to Wonderland and get back to her drawing desk in Rome, Italy, where she lives, to illustrate her heroes’ adventures in the Disney book series Princess Beginnings and Before the Story. She will draw anything: from restaurant placemats and menus to illustrated books, comic books like Inside Out, and cartoon characters like Disney’s Star Darlings. However, she doesn’t just draw cute characters: lately, she’s been having this weird passion for aliens . . . perhaps due to Stitch’s irresistible charm.