★ In the literary sky of Slovenia, Bina Štampe Žmavc shines like a brilliant star, using her delicate brushstrokes and rich imagination to create a world full of fantasy and warmth for children. Her works span picture books, fairy tales and poetry, each one like a pearl, shining with a unique light.
★ Honors and awards that Bina Štampe Žmavc has received in the field of children's literature:
- IBBY Honor List
- The White Ravens
- Večernica Award (the most important youth literature award in Slovenia)
- Desetnica Award
- International Biennial Janusz Korczak Awards

On the outskirts of a big city, there lived an old man and an old woman, surrounded by forgotten fields and the chirping of tiny birds. The Time Witch had planted an invisible garden of forgetfulness around them, stretching all the way to the blue horizon.

Although the gentian is also grown here, especially in the Prekomurje region, it is most beautiful in the high mountains of the Himalayas. Compared to its bright red cousin, the gentian is more resilient and very special. The old woman constantly lost and searched for words and thoughts. The old man made her a private little box to help her put them in. In the evening, when she was exhausted after a whole day of searching, the old man comforted her, saying it was nothing strange because she had to chase after words all day long. He opened the box, but the old woman wasn't entirely sure if the words she was looking for were inside...

This is a story where legend and reality intertwine, where words gain new and different meanings time and again. It is also a story about love and loyalty.

Bina Štampe Žmavc is a Slovenian poet, children's literature writer, theatre director and translator. In her early years, she worked as a director, stage manager and author at the Pioneer Children's Theatre in Celje, an experience that laid the foundation for her future work in children's literature in terms of stage and music. To date, she has published six collections of children's poetry, over twenty novels/fairy tales, eight children's plays, four radio dramas, as well as a large number of translations and adaptations. She is known for her poetic, humorous and musical style, often creating new onomatopoeic words and rhythmically strong sentences, and is called a writer who "turns children's poetry into songs".

Svjetlan Junaković is Croatian picture book author, illustrator, sculptor and art professor. Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 1985. Currently a professor in the Illustration Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She has written and illustrated or illustrated over 300 books, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. Her paintings combine acrylic, gouache, collage and newspaper fragments. The characters are often exaggerated and deformed, humorous and vivid, with a "childlike proportion" and a sense of play.