Alejandra González is a Uruguayan author who loves creating worlds of fantasy where children feel invited to grow and dream. She holds a degree in Social Communication and was born in Montevideo in 1977. She wrote El Rojo Orgulloso, her first book, which won the BRAW Amazing Bookshelf award from the Bologna Children's Book Fair and Uruguay's Premio a las Letras de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, in the Ópera Prima category, both in 2023. The story was translated into Portuguese. In 2025, her second book, El primer día de clases, was published. Alejandra lives in Punta del Este with her husband and daughter.

Daniel Kondo is a Brazilian illustrator who loves capturing everything he sees and feels through images. Born in Brazil, he settled in Punta del Este with his family in 2015. He has worked as an illustrator since he was very young and has published more than fifty books, both for children and adults. He received the New Horizons award, given by the Bologna Children's Book Fair, and in Brazil was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize multiple times, winning it in 2022 in the Children's Book category. In 2023, he published Andar com Fé together with singer Gilberto Gil. His books have been translated into Spanish, English, and Korean.