Carol Wallace graduated from the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts and received her master’s degree in elementary education from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She taught second grade and wrote several award-winning books for children with her husband, Bill Wallace.

Bill Wallace (1947–2012) grew up in Oklahoma, where he and his friends rode horses, went fishing, and had campouts. His stories were inspired by these childhood adventures. Bill won nineteen children’s state awards and was awarded the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award for Children’s Literature from the Oklahoma Center for the Book.