Liu Haiqi, a native of Haiyang, Shandong Province, who was born in Wuhan on 20 October 1954. He has long worked in children's book publishing, editor and reviewer. He later served as Vice Chairman of Shandong Writers' Association. He was awarded the first China Publishing Government Award for Outstanding Personality, the National Top 100 Publishing Workers and Shandong Province Model Worker.He is also a member of the Chinese Writers' Association and a member of the Children's Literature Committee of the Chinese Writers' Association. His major works include the fairy tales "The Adventures of the Tailless Mice", "The Daddy Tree", "Fairy Tales in the Bean Field" and "The Light", and the full-length novels "The Summer with Doves", "Little Soldier Mighty", "The Horse on the Street" and "Wind and Thunder Top". His works have won the Ninth and Eleventh National Outstanding Children's Literature Awards and the Chinese Outstanding Publication Award, and have been selected as one of the "50 books loved by the public" and one of the 100 outstanding books recommended by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television to young people nationwide.

Yang Bo, was born in Jinan, Shandong province in 1960. He learned painting in Children’s Palace when he was young. He became a teacher after graduating from Art School of Qufu Normal University in 1982. He was published many picture books, such as Bath House, Xiao Ke’s Red Leather Boots.