Linda Wolfsgruber is a Hans Christian Andersen honor illustrator who lives in Vienna, Austria. She is a world-renowned artist who has won many awards, including the Austrian Art Award (2016), the Children’s and Juvenile Book Award for Illustration, and the Golden Apple of the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava. She has illustrated many books including, Brunhilda and the Ring, The Camel in the Sun, Innana, and A Daisy is a Daisy is a Daisy. She is the illustrator of On the Small Hill Where the Girls Take Off Their Shoes and A Dress for the Moon, also published by Aldana Libros.

Rabbi Edward Elkin is the spiritual leader of the First Narayever Congregation in downtown Toronto. Rabbi Elkin grew up in Long Island, New York and received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1984. He was ordained as a rabbi by Hebrew Union College in 1990. After serving for six years as a rabbi and teacher in Montreal, Rabbi Elkin took up the post of Executive Director of North Carolina Hillel in Chapel Hill before moving with his wife Linda, and daughters Malka and Tali, to Toronto in the year 2000. His book, Putting Worlds into Words: Selected Writings from Twenty-Five Years at the First Narayever Congregation, was published in 2026.