JEAN LITTLE est l’une des auteures émérites les plus aimées au pays. Elle a écrit plus de 50 livres qui ont été traduits en 20 langues. Parmi ceux-ci figurent certains des ouvrages pour enfants les plus populaires au Canada, tels que Maman va t’acheter un moqueur, Mine for Keeps et Dans les yeux d'Anna. Jean a aussi signé plusieurs livres de la collection Cher Journal. Membre de l’Ordre du Canada pour sa contribution exceptionnelle à la littérature canadienne pour enfants, elle a reçu de nombreux prix nationaux et internationaux. Jean nous a malheureusement quittés en 2020.

JEAN LITTLE has been called “a Canadian treasure.” She wrote more than fifty books including some of Canada’s best-loved children’s books, such as From Anna, Listen for the Singing, Mine for Keeps, Orphan at my Door, and Pippin the Christmas Pig. Many of her books feature children who are orphaned, have a disability, or face other challenges. Jean’s books have been translated into a dozen languages and have won many awards, including a Canadian Library Association Book of the Year award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the Canada Council Literature Prize, and the Boston Globe Horn-Book Honor Book Award. She was honoured with the Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Order of Canada and was nominated for the international Astrid Lindgren Award eight times. Jean died in 2020.

Joe Weissmann was born in Austria and came to Canada at the age of eleven. He studied art at the Museum of Fine Arts and Concordia University in Montreal and taught illustration at Sheridan College for six years. An award-winning illustrator, Joe works for book and magazine publishers in Canada and the United States and lives in rural Ontario with his wife and his old cat, Alfie.