Vera Lúcia Dias, the author, was born in Rio de Janeiro, but has been living in Brasília since 1962. She is a music teacher at several schools in Brasília. Since she was a little girl, she has loved to read, write, play, and travel. She still does all these things, and her stories are always about what happens to her, to the people, or even to the animals she knows. She has published many books that are loved by young readers.