Chiara Rapaccini was born in Florence in 1954 and now lives in Rome. She designed cartoons for RAI and for cinema; she collaborated as an illustrator with a number of Italian periodicals. Her novels - a satirical picture of everyday life - are much appreciated for their ironical tone and for their ability to focus on the contradictions of the adults' world. Chiara Rapaccini also collaborates as an illustrator with Il Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica and Il Manifesto, and she also works for Teatro di Roma and has taught since 1995 at Istituto Europeo del Design in Rome. In 1999 she won the National Prize Il Battello a Vapore - Citta' di Verbania as an illustrator.

Born in Genoa in 1921, he studied and graduated in Lausanne at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. A painter, decorator, illustrator and ceramist, he devoted his skills to building stage sets and designing costumes for some of the most important national and international theatre companies. Later, together with Giulio Giannini, he designed the opening credits for Mario Monicelli's films, L'armata Brancaleone and Brancaleone at the Crusades (Brancaleone alle Crociate). He has designed over 400 sets for plays, operas and dance shows, working for the most important directors and the leading theatres both in Italy and abroad. He has also illustrated numerous children's books. He received two Oscar nominations for his animated films La Gazza ladra and Pulcinella.

Francesco Tullio-Altan was born in Treviso in 1942 and currently lives in Aquileia. He started his career in Rome and Rio de Janeiro where he worked as a scriptwriter and a set designer both for cinema and television, an activity he has never given up from then on. For the children magazine Il Corriere dei Piccoli he created Pimpa, a dog who is the main character of comic strips, that since 1987 have been published in a monthly magazine. In the last few years, Pimpa has also been the main character of an animation film and of an interactive cd-rom. Altan's comics for adults have been published all over the world.

Born in Milan in 1920, in a family of artists, he has always lived among art and children. Since he was a child he has been writing a number of novels, fairy-tales, poems, songs, rhymes, comedies and even an entire encyclopaedia. Young readers adore his books. His books include Nel bosco del mistero and Mauro e il leone nel grande mare. His versatility is attested by is collaboration in the direction of Frullalero, a performance on food and tastes, on eating and being eaten.