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.

Veronique Tadjo is an award-winning poet, novelist, illustrator and painter from Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). She has lived in Paris, Lagos, Mexico City and Nairobi, but is currently based in London with her husband and two children.

Joan Rankin has illustrated more than twenty-five books for children. She received the South African HAUM Dann Retief Prize for Children s Book Illustration in 1986 and the Katrina Harris Award for Children s Book Illustration in 1991. Books she has illustrated include "A Frog in the Bog" by Karma Wilson and "Off to First Grade" by Louise Borden. She lives with her husband and three daughters in Johannesburg, South Africa.