A prolific author, Alain M. Bergeron has over 300 children’s books to his name. In 1996, he partnered with Sampar, the start of a lifelong friendship and an invaluable collaboration that produced over a hundred works. Savais-tu?and Billy Stuart are just two of the many popular series they’ve created together.

Born in Montreal, Michel Quintin now lives in the Eastern Townships. A doctor of veterinary medicine, he has worked as an international aid worker, notably in Cambodia, in addition to being a professor of parasitology at Constantine University in Algeria. A clinical practitioner in small animal medicine for nearly 40 years, he now devotes himself to his profession as an editor.

Illustrator, cartoonist, and author, Samuel Parent, better known by the pen name Sampar, has been a standout in the publishing world for several years now. A self-taught, multi-talented illustrator, he possesses a lively imagination that draws us into worlds that are by turns moving, wacky, and sometimes even mythical. His career as an illustrator hit its stride at the humour magazine Safarir, earning him widespread acclaim in Quebec, the United States and Australia. For the past few years, he’s illustrated theSavais-tu>, Les Zintrépides series, which are hugely popular in Quebec and have been translated into several languages.