Bibi Dumon Tak writes nonfiction, or as she calls it: the truth in stories. Most of those stories are about animals. And all those stories are true. She has no preferences. As long as it can crawl, fly, swim or run; as long as it has fur, scales, spines or feathers. As long as they aren't people. Dumon Tak has won the Gouden Griffel, the highest honor for children's books in the Netherlands, as well as the Theo Thijssen Prize, the highest honor for authors. Two books of hers, Soldier Bear and Mikis and the Donkey, have won the Mildred L.

Batchelder Award. Her first book with Levine Querido, My Presentation Today is About the Anaconda, received four starred reviews and was called a "brilliant use of anthropomorphic animals, serving up facts and entertainment" by Kirkus. Annemarie van Haeringen is a leading Dutch illustrator and author. She has illustrated numerous children's books and worked on films and children's magazines. She has won the Gouden Penseel--the highest honor for children's illustration in the Netherlands--three times, and her books have been published in more than twenty-five languages. Her first book with Levine Querido, My Presentation Today is About the Anaconda, received four starred reviews and was called a "brilliant use of anthropomorphic animals, serving up facts and entertainment" by Kirkus. Nancy Forest-Flier is an American-born translator and editor living and working in the Netherlands. She has translated several adult and children's novels from Dutch to English as well as books of historical nonfiction.

She has also translated for numerous Dutch museums and institutes including the Anne Frank House. She has six children and ten grandchildren.