Dianne Hofmeyr grew up next to the sea on the southern tip of Africa. Her travels with notebook and camera to Egypt, Tunisia, and Senegal, through China, Vietnam, and across Siberia have led to stories that have won South Africa's M-Net Book Prize and the Sanlam Gold for Youth Literature, as well as the Young Africa Award and an IBBY. She is also the author of Fish Notes and Star Song and several picture books based on Ancient Egyptian myths.

As she did in "No Haircut Today" ("pitch perfect language ... and spiky drawings that blend funny and fond." - "The Washington Post") and "Time to Get Dressed "("captures the complex relationship between parent and child with both wacky humor and exquisite tenderness." - "Publishers Weekly, "starred review), Elivia Savadier proves again that she is a master of economy, able to suggest more in a single line than others do in an entire book. Ms. Savadier lives in Massachusetts.