Nadine Robert , the founder of the publishing house Comme des géants, has always had a strong passion for illustrated children's books that have a powerfully built narrative approach combined with strong images. She is a recipient of the 2022 Governor General's Award for her story Clover , and has received Best Book of the Year honors from Kirkus and a New York Times /New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book award. She lives in Montréal with her family. Todd Stewart is a picture-book author and illustrator, filmmaker, and self-taught printmaker whose works have been exhibited in public and private exhibition spaces across Canada. He is a two-time nominee of the Governor General's Literary Award, taking home the prize in 2024 for Skating Wild on an Inland Sea (Groundwood Books), and was also a TD Canadian Children's Literature Award recipient in 2020. Raised in the Canadian Prairies, he currently lives in Montréal with his family.