Britta Schwarz was born in 1966 and worked for several years as a marketing manager at a bank. Since 1999, she has also been a children's book author and currently lives in Auetal. Manfred Tophoven, born in 1967, studied visual communication with a focus on graphic design in Aachen. Since 1999, he has illustrated for several publishers in the fields of children's and young adult books as well as non-fiction and textbooks. He lives with his wife, two children, and three cats in an old oil mill in the Lower Rhine region.