A graduate of Trinity University, Carolyn Dee Flores is the illustrator of A Surprise for Teresita / Una sorpresa para Teresita (Piñata Books, 2016); Dale, dale, dale: Una fiesta de números / Hit It, Hit It, Hit It: A Fiesta of Numbers (Piñata Books, 2014), which was named to the 2015-2016 Tejas Star Reading List; Canta, Rana, canta / Sing, Froggie, Sing (Piñata Books, 2013), which was named to the 2014-2015 Tejas Star Reading List; and Daughters of Two Nations (Mountain Press Books, 2013), which won a 2014 Skipping Stones Honor Award for excellence in multicultural literature. A member of the society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Carolyn lives in San Antonio, Texas.