Adi Brosh
Adi Brosh, mother, clinical psychologist at her private clinic; member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Her thesis examined the ability to predict postpartum depression based on the dreams of pregnant women. She believes that dreaming, playfulness and creativity spark personal development.
Alina Gorban
Alina Gorban is an illustrator. She has designed and illustrated children’s books, as well as weekend newspaper comic columns and posters.
Aviel Basil
Aviel Basil has illustrated more than a dozen children’s books and won, among other awards, the Israel Museum Silver Medal award for children book illustration for his first book. He illustrates for magazines, advertisement and worked on character and background designs for various apps and animations. His style is inspired…
Avishag Rabiner
Avishag Rabiner is a writer and creative writing instructor. Her five children are the source of inspiration for the wild characters in this book. Before launching her writing career, Rabiner was a prominent Israeli actress who appeared on numerous TV series.
Bar Ben-Yossef + Netalie Gvirtz
Bar Ben-Yossef is an author and screenwriter with over 17 years of experience writing books, TV Programs, developing formats and characters for dozens of shows and channels including the BBC, Sesame Street, Hop TV, Fox Kids and many more. Netalie Gvirtz is an award winning author, journalist, screenwriter and illustrator.…
Daniel S. Milo
Daniel Shabtai Milo is a philosopher and professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, specializing in the “excesses in nature and culture”. Milo also studied biology in order to understand the evolution of the creature who creates and consumes “absurdities.” He published eight books in…
Elinor Milchan
Elinor Milchan is a photographer and video artist. Taught at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. She is the co-founder of Artea Projects, co-curating public art projects, has published three books including a children’s book project she created with Keren Ann Zeidel.
Eyal Doron
Eyal Doron is a researcher, best-selling author, and corporate lecturer with expertise in developing creative thinking, creative strategy, and leadership. He is the Head of the Interdisciplinary Division of Psychology and Philosophy at the School of Psychology and Head of “Creativity in Action” Executive Program, at the IDC Herzliya. This…
Gaby Aldor
Gaby Aldor is a writer and editor of dance books, as well as a leading consultant, an expert of the Israeli dance scene with vast knowledge in the field. The book includes photographs by photographer Gadi Dagon, who has been documenting Naharin and his work throughout the years.
Gai Ad
Gai Ad is an Israeli prominent writer, known for her particular language and her unique way of rendering characters. She was born in Beersheva, the capital of the Negev desert, in the winter of 1963, and at the age of seventeen, following her father’s death, moved to Tel Aviv, where…
Gilad Soffer
Gilad Soffer, illustrator and author of children books, has illustrated critically acclaimed books and won prizes, among them is Jonathan Yavin’s Oh, Brother which won the Israel Museum’s Ben Yitzhak Award for children’s book illustration. ALA represents two of the works illustrated by Gilad Soffer – Pumpkin the Kitten and…
Gur Ilany
Gur Ilany grew up in a house packed with wild animals in the desert, south Israel. His father, a known cat’s zoologist (also known as “the Israeli Gerald Durell”), regularly brought home various mammals, among them a leopard cub. Ilany left the desert in 1998, to study visual communications in Wizo…
Hadar Reuven
Hadar Reuven is a gifted artist. Her creative and artistic talent were already recognized at childhood, and at age of 14 she was invited to participate in a Program of Sciences and Arts for Gifted Students – Weizmann Institute of Science. She exhibits her art and illustration in solo exhibitions…
Henry Rink
Henry Rink, a Dane who lived in Greenland for many years, collected and translated these stories in his book Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, first to Danish and later to English. His book is considered to be the first publication of Inuit tales. From among the approximately 150 stories found…
Jonathan Yavin
Jonathan Yavin is an author and journalist, has published four adult novels, three youth novels, one writer’s guide, and nine best-selling children’s books. He received the Book Publishers Association’s Platinum Prize for the Hebrew edition of Pumpkin the Kitten (sold over 220,000 copies) and the Prime Minister’s Prize for for…
Knud Rasmussen
Knud Rasmussen was a Greenlandic Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the “father of Eskimology” and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit. The version before you was recounted by Qaqortingneq of the Netsilik tribe by Knud Rasmussen…
Lena Guberman
Lena Guberman is a talent artist and a prize-winning illustrator. She illlustrated many books and won three times(!) the Israel Museum award for illustaration.
Liraz Margalit
Liraz Margalit is a social psychologist with a PhD. in psychology who specializes in game theory and behavioral economics. She lectures at the prestigious Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, is a frequent media interviewee, and writes a popular column titled “Behind Online Behavior” in Psychology Today as well as another column in…
Naama Benziman
Naama Benziman is an acclaimed illustrator, author, editor, curator and lecturer at Israel’s most prestigious visual arts academies. Her artwork has been featured throughout Europe, North and South America, and Asia. She is an award-winning artist, and her children’s books have been highly praised by critics. Naama won the 2018…
Nana Ariel
Nana Ariel is a writer, researcher and lecturer. She teaches rhetoric at Tel Aviv University and is a guest lecturer at Harvard University in the US.
Naomi Shapira
Naomi Shapira is a graphic designer, an artist of papercuts (cuts papers for 40 years), and gives lectures and workshops to children and adults. She works with a cutter knife and uses white acid-free paper. “We photographed the paper-cuts in the book, leaving space between them and the colorful backgrounds,…
Nathalie Belhassen
Nathalie Belhassen is an original and fresh voice. She holds B.Sc. in biology, and B.A. and M.A in literature from Tel-Aviv University. Her writing calls to fulfill our dreams with the power of creation and the power of sharing and caring. She combines delicately creative narative with magnificent ancient art…
Nevo Ziv
Nevo Ziv is an author, playwright, and journalist of the largest circulation daily newspaper in Israel. His stories for children suggest unique points of view and recieve heaps of prais. His play for children won 2 prizes at the international festival of Children’s theater in Israel, and his drama play…
Orianne Shavit
Orianne Shavit is an Israeli painter, illustrator designer and doll maker. Her technique is diverse and changes according to each project, working mainly by hand. She illustrates both for adult and children books following her fascination for cultures, nature and remote sceneries. In her work she often combines symbolic, botanical…
Orit Bergman
Orit Bergman writes and illustrates children’s books, and teaches illustration at the prestigious Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem. Her books are sold in France, China and Israel, and she frequently contributes illustrations to newspapers, magazines, advertisement campaigns, and exhibitions. Her work has won her many prizes and awards…
Ortal Avraham
Ortal Avraham is a designer by day and comics artist by night.
Photographer: Gadi Dagon
Gadi Dagon, born in 1957 in Australia, is an Israeli photographer. He started his career in the late 70’s, working for various newspapers and magazines in Israel, including Yedioth and Maariv for which he specialized in Fashion and Advertising works. From 2004, he devoted his work to high culture, focusing on performing…
Sarit Eliahu
Sarit Eliahu is a drama therapist (MA), psychotherapist and Dyadic therapist, who focuses on dyadic parent-child relationships for the last 16 years and researches the dreams phenomena among children and adult. Her books are based of her personal and professional experiance. Her first book, My Book of Dreams, is praised…
Shahar Kober
Shahar Kober is an international illustrator and art director who has won numerous awards. His works are published in the US, UK, France, Germany, Australia, South Korea and Israel. Among his clients are HarperCollins US, Scholastic Books US, Usborne Publishing UK, Egmont publishing UK, Little Tiger Press UK. Selected awards:…
Shira Korach
Shira Korach is a talent illustrator, animator and designer. She illustrates children’s books and were worked on several animation projects, as well as an instructor of animation and illustration at Minshar School of Art, Israel.
Tamar Dovrat
Tamar Dovrat is an illustrator and a pattern designer. she graduated from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design where she studied in the Visual Communication department. She illustrates books, frequently contributes to magazins, and creats artworks for companies.
Tamar Tsoran
Tamar Tsoran is a courageous and powerful author. Her writing is accurate, meticulous and prickly. This is her first novel.
Tami Shem-Tov
Tami Shem-Tov is an award-winning author. She has written biographies, stories based on true events, and historical novels for children and young adults. Her books were translated into six langauges and have won her many prizes, among them are: 2014 Andersen Honor Citation 2014 Bialik Prize 2014 Israeli Public Libraries…
Tammy Brown-Elkeles
Tammy Brown-Elkeles is an author of children books, screenwriter and playwright. Her inteligent works have received extensive exposure in the media, she frequently speaks to promote her books at schools and other venues, and has been teaching kids how to elaborate creative thinking.
Yaniv Shimony
Yaniv Shimony is a top artist in Israel. He was an art director in some of Israel’s largest advertising companies, a comics’ artist in London, and drew Judge Dred for the magazine 2000 AD. In last years he focuses on illustrating children’s books, some of which have become best sellers…
Yannets Levi
Yannets Levi is a celebrated top writer of children’s books, fiction, TV drama, a TV host and a lecturer. In addition to his mega bestseller series for children Uncle Leo’s Adventures, which sold over 900,000 in Israel alone as well as hundreds of thousand worldwide, he authored two bestsellers for…
Yehiel Harari
Yehiel Harari authored eight non fiction of which some became best sellers. He is a highly sought-after speaker and director of workshops that practices insights of Jewish thought. Harari worked as a journalist, a parliamentary aide and senior adviser to government ministries, and has taught at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Yochi Brandes
Yochi Brandes was born in Israel to a family of Hassidic Rabbis. With degrees in both biblical and Judaic studies, she has been a prominent and sought-after lecturer on the Bible and on Jewish cultural topics for many years. She was awarded the Israel Book Publishers Association’s Platinum Prize for…