Géraldine Elschner was born in France. She studied German and Romance languages and trained as a librarian specializing in children's literature. Elschner has been translating children's books from German into French and writing their own stories for years. Today she lives in Heidelberg, Germany.
Alexandra Junge was born in Lüdinghausen, Germany. She studied illustration with a focus on children's book illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg. She has been illustrating children's books since 2001. Her original pictures and illustrations have appeared in exhibitions in Italy and France. Alexandra Junge lives and works in Freiburg, Germany.