Amondo, Son of the Baobab

Hélène Ducharme is a playwright, director, actress and puppeteer, and has been Artistic Director of company, Théâtre Motus, for the past 25 years. She also served on the selection committee of the International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) from 2012 to 2016 and the organization's board of directors from to 2016.

Judith Gueyfier began creating children's books after studying design in Paris at the Duperré School and illustration in Strasbourg at the Arts Déco School. Over the past 15 years, she has produced more than 30 picture books for several well-established publishing houses in France, including Rue Monde, Le Seuil, Sarbacane, Milan and Nathan. In 2014, Barefoot Books published Chandra's Magic Light in the US. Recently, she illustrated the award-winning picture book Songs in the Shade of the Cashew and Coconut Trees, published by The Secret Mountain.