Dieter Böge is a picture book author, translator, and founding member of the "New Picture Book" Association. He studied art history and illustration, and teaches drawing, painting, and illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Benjamin Gottwald lives in Hamburg, Germany, where he works as an illustrator and animator, draws for a magazine, and builds characters out of wood. His first book, Buzz! Boom! Bang! , was an ALA Notable Children's Book (2026) and won the Hamburg Picture Book Prize and the German Youth Literature Award. David Henry Wilson was born in London in 1937. As well as being a translator, he is a playwright and children's author, best known for his Jeremy James books. He lives in Somerset, England, and has two surviving children and three grandchildren.