Baseball Bats for Christmas

Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak is an Inuk storyteller who grew up in Repulse Bay, NWT (now Naujaat, Nunavut). During his childhood, his family traveled by dog sled, living a traditional Inuit lifestyle. He is the author of many picture books, including Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails, winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award.

He won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature in 2008. He lives in Valhalla, Manitoba.

COCO APUNNGUAQ LYNGE is a Greenlandic-Danish Inuit artist. She utilizes her expanding knowledge of Greenland and Greenlandic culture to tell and illustrate stories. She lives in Denmark.