Hanna Jansen wrote this book based on the real life experiences of her adopted daughter, Jeanne, who survived the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Hanna and Jeanne live in Siegburg, Germany, with Hanna's husband and the couple's twelve other children, most of whom are war orphans. |
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Vicky Jones was born in Zambia and grew up in central and southern Africa, but now lives in New Zealand, and has joint New Zealand/UK citizenship. She is an award-winning author in New Zealand, notably as a finalist four times for the prestigious New Zealand Post Award, and winning it for her first ever book. She is married, and has two sons. |
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Harriet McBryde Johnson went to schools for children with disabilities until age thirteen and to a cross-disability summer camp until age seventeen. Ms. Johnson wrote for the New York Times Magazine and was a frequent contributor to the disability press. Harriet died in June 2008. |
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Julia Jarman has written over 80 books for children. She lives near Bedford with her husband and has three grown-up children. She has been a schoolteacher and journalist but she now devotes a lot of time to school and library visits to talk to children about writing.
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