Ana Kadoić was born in 1974 in Zagreb. She graduated in 1999 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and enrolled a two-year postgraduate program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. 

Since 2003 she has been actively working as an illustrator for children’s books, collaborating with many publishers in Croatia and Netherlands. She illustrated over 40 picture books and schoolbooks. 

Since 2011 she has been working on animation, based on the picture books she illustrated.  
she won many awards: Ovca u kutiji , Grigor Vitez, Lice knjige, PišiRiši... 

Melita Rundek loves and writes for children, talks to children, meets them at a literary meeting. She received five great awards for her children’s books, one of which was regional, and lots of acknowledgements. Her books are regularly on the reading recommendation lists. Some of her stories and books became plays, and some were performed on the radio stations. Not only does she write, but also paints. She has had four solo painting exhibitions and her clay figurines were a part of a group exhibition. Check out Melita’s stories. 

Iva Novosel was born on the Moon island of Pag in Croatia, on the hottest day of the year 1980. Her genes are a heady mix from Lika and Dalmatia, brought to fruit on the rocky shores of Adriatic sea, spurred on by songs of seagulls and the sweet aroma of Mediterranean figs. 

Her profession is journalism and her calling is to be creative. 

As she floated away from her island, she found new home on the Croatian mainland where she, apart from casual travels, now happily resides. A creature of restless spirit and hungry eyes, and parent to three little deckhands. She loves sea wind and salt, lists, stories, poems, fairy tales, books and cooking recipes – in short, she is in love with words. 

And reading and writing. She collects ideas and children's picture books. Sometimes she even makes some of her own. 

Breathes, writes and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

 

Snježana Babić Višnjić was born in 1969 in Zagreb where she graduated at The Faculty of humanities and social sciences. She wrote and published several novels for children and youth, received many literature awards and some of her pieces came to life on the stage. 

She is a member of Croatian writer’s society and the president of Croatian children’s writers’ association. She writes literary critics, and works as an editor, lector, and journalist.

Other than being an amazing writer, Snježana is the editor of most of the picture books published by Sretno srce.

 

She came into this world one summer night in 1974, in Gorski kotar, predestined to fall in love with stories. Ever since, they have been flying around her head, busy like bees…When they find their way out of her head or she catches them for heads or tails, they usually end on the paper.

Children’s magazines Smib, Radost and Zvrk have welcomed some of those fugitives while magazine Quorum published her poetry, also praised by the award Goran for young poets in 1998. Recently, she started writing prose and poetry for both children and adults, partly on one of the dialects from Gorski kotar. 

She lives and works in Zagreb. Mother of one girl and two boys and guardian of a pygmy schnauzer Eli.

Iva Olujić was born in Zagreb in 1973. She graduated at the Faculty of teacher education in Zagreb, majoring in early and preschool education. She also completed training in body- oriented psychotherapy.

She works as an educator and hangs out with children in Croatian and English. Iva likes to act in theatre plays for kids, she actively participated in the project “Let’s give theatre to children”. She describes her roles saying, “It is amazing how much pleasure and joy you can give both to yourself and children by playing mainly animals and food products.”

This spunky kindergarten teacher loves to invent stories for children, enjoys traveling and gardening, cycling, djembe banging (djembe is an African drum) and many other things. 

Nina Vađić was born in Zagreb in 1973, in the last days of August, just in time to say farewell to the hot summer. She spoke very early, walked with a little delay and kept that rhythm throughout her entire life. After her childhood, which flew by very quickly, she kept memories of the gumi-gumi play, dear friends and petite mischiefs. She also kept two diplomas – of regular and music school.

After her graduation at the Faculty of teacher education in Zagreb, Nina started giving musical lessons for children and youth and has been truly enjoying it for the past twenty years.

Since 2015 she writes for children and relishes every published picture book as if it was her first. Some of them received recognitions and awards, but Nina loves them all the same. Other than writing, she also enjoys creating animated movies and hopes she might dive a bit deeper in the world of cartoons. 

In her free time, Nina likes to read, cook, and hang out with her children. 

Silvija Šesto was born in 1962 in Zagreb, where she graduated philosophy and literature. She has been writing ever since her high school and has published loads of prose and poetry for “grownups”, fifteen-ish of her radio dramas were performed, and some, that accidently popped out of her head, were even performed on stage (plays Zelenkapica, Ping-pong, Bum Tomica, Vanda, Debela, Deveta ovčica, Tko je ubio Pašteticu…). She published several novels: Vanda, Debela, Tko je ubio pašteticu, Zezomljani, Djevac, Pa to je ljubav, Leon Napoleon as well as collection of stories named Ružičasta sanjarica, play Pričalica X and series of stories Tomica 1,2,3 and 4. 

Five of her titles are included in the elementary school reading list and she won many awards - Ivana Brlić Mažuranić (Debela), Časna lista IBBY-a (Debela), Mali Marulić (Duboko more ili kako smo sve pobroćkali), Mali Marulić (Gospodin Mrak i tri bijela šeširića), Fran Galović, Kiklop (Palac Sim i palac Tam), Grigor Vitez (Tinuninu), Grigor Vitez (Uhvati mi plavog medu), Anto Gardaš (Zezopove basne), Žar ptica (Bum Tomica), Ovca u kutiji (Sirup protiv mačjeg kašlja) and was twice nominated for the Mali princ award(Tinuninu, Uhvati mi plavog medu).