Rights Information

If you need further information or review copies (digital) of the book, please contact:

• Rightsholders:hanna.bulhakova@ranok-school.com


• Ukrainian Book Institute: ubi@ubi.org.ua

Author Biography

Olha Kupriyan is a writer, coordinator of the Children’s Reading Lab at Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, editor of the website for ‘BaraBooka. The Space of the Ukrainian Children’s Book’, and member of the panels at various children’s book contests (BaraBooka Top, The Critic’s Rating, Espresso.Readers’ Choice, Nash Format Literary Contest, etc.)
She has a background in philology and graduated from National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a Master’s degree in literature. As a lecturer and teacher, she works with children, teenagers and adults in the field of literary education. She authored several books for children and teenagers. Her teenage story Shchodennyk Loly (Lola’s Diary) was awarded the 2018 LitAkcent of the Year. In collaboration with journalist Yanina Sokolova, she co-authored the book I, Nina (2019), which was awarded BookForum Best Book Award 2020 as the Best Modern Prose in Ukrainian. Olha loves book therapy and practices reading aloud to her children every evening.

Oksana Drachkovska is an illustrator from Ukraine. She creates illustrations and designs book covers and travelling and nature are two of her greatest inspirations in art. She is an awardee of the Gaude Polonia (Poland) and SAIA (Slovakia) scholarship programs. She was included in the list of finalists of the Bologna Exhibition of Illustrators in 2021 and 2022. During the Russian invasion, many of her illustrations focused on the war and its victims.