Meet the Creators
Behind every story, image, and idea is a person with a unique vision.
Here, you'll find the artists, authors, translators and designers who bring heart, culture, and creativity to life.
With roots from around the world and passions that span disciplines, they each offer a glimpse into how beauty, meaning, and imagination come together in their works.
Illustrators
Illustrator - CanadaA Chinese-Canadian illustrator and story maker based in Toronto.
Her work explores quietness, imagination, and emotional companionship through soft watercolor textures and atmospheric storytelling. Inspired by forests, weather, feathers, and small moments of connection, she creates gentle worlds that feel intimate and quietly alive.
Her work has appeared in CHICKADEE magazine and at festivals including TCAF, VanCAF, MCX, and FBDM.
Moo enjoys beach days, chiffon cakes, and daydreaming beside windows with her two tabby cats.
Illustrator - ChinaLi Zhuoyin
Trained in animation and fine arts in both China and the Netherlands, she has developed a lively and distinctive visual language. Her work brings together humor, imagination, and a strong sense of rhythm, creating picture-book worlds that speak to both children and adults.
Yuri Peron
He has loved drawing since childhood and began working professionally after graduating from the Unicamp Arts Institute. Inspired by people, animals, and the simple joys of life, he creates images that blend playfulness with deeper meaning, often returning to the themes of life and hope.
Illustrator - BrazilAuthors & Translators
Arlene Vandersloot
Author - CanadaCanadian psychotherapist, former midwife, and mother of four based in Toronto.
For decades, her work has focused on attachment, emotional development, infant-parent relationships, and the quiet ways people care for one another. After accompanying hundreds of families through birth, parenting, and emotional change, she began transforming those observations into stories.
Her writing explores friendship, solitude, emotional safety, and the ways people remain connected through difference.
Author - ChinaThrough years of reading, studying, and sharing picture books, she gradually began creating stories of her own. Drawing on everyday experience and a distinctly Chinese sense of life, her work grows out of long involvement with children, books, and storytelling in public spaces.
Vanessa Gomes Pätilä
Her writing is shaped by a deep interest in parenting, child development, education, psychology, energy healing, and spirituality. With study and work experience across countries and fields, including education and finance, she brings a broad and thoughtful perspective to stories about children, growth, and family life
Author - FinlandSabrina Gledhill
Translator - United KingdomBritish scholar, publisher, writer, and translator based in the United Kingdom, lived in Salvador, Brazil for nearly three decades before returning to Britain. She holds a PhD from the Federal University of Bahia and an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA. Her work focuses on race relations in Brazil and the United States, as well as Black Atlantic intellectual history. She has translated more than forty books, mainly in the academic field.
Translator - TorontoSylvia chang
Born and raised in China, Sylvia Chang holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology and currently works at the University of Toronto as a developmental psychology researcher. She also contributes to academic editing and research across several psychology publications.
Alongside her academic work, she is a devoted reader whose sensitivity to language, childhood experience, and cross-cultural communication informs her translation.