Felicita Sala is an author and self-taught illustrator. Her titles include If You Run Out of Words, What's Cooking at 10 Garden Street?, What's Cooking in Flowerville?, and Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street, which has been translated into ten languages. She is the illustrator of the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal book As Night Falls by Donna Napoli, the New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book She Made a Monster by Lynn Fulton, and many others. She is a recipient of the Premio Andersen (the Andersen Prize). Raised in Perth, Australia, she lives in Rome, where she was born.