Acclaimed author Dianne Stewart has degrees in African Languages, Literature and Psychology. She has written numerous popular books for children that have been published both locally and internationally, most recently Folktales from Africa (also published by Struik Children), and many of these have been translated into various European, African and Eastern languages.

Since the publication of her first children’s picture book in 1983, award-winning illustrator/writer Marjorie vanHeerden has been published in 33 languages in Africa, Britain, Europe, the East, Canada and the USA. She lives in Gordon’s Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa.