Bumpfizzle the Best on Planet Earth

Patricia Forde is from Galway on the west coast of Ireland. She has published several picture books in Irish and in English, and three novels for children with Little Island. The List was published by SourceBooks in the US, and Bumpfizzle the Best on Planet Earth was published in the US by Little Island in 2022 to strong critical acclaim. She has won two White Raven awards and has twice been shortlisted for the Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year.

Patricia is married to Padraic and has two grown up children. She still lives in Galway, the best city in the world.

Elīna Brasliņa is an illustrator from Riga, in Latvia. She has illustrated over 20 books: mainly children’s stories and novels by Latvian writers. She also illustrated Lawrence Schimel’s board books Bedtime, Not Playtime! and Early One Morning; Kate Wakeling’s poetry collections Moon Juice and Cloud Soup; and Patricia Forde’s picture book Imagine! She also creates animated films and feminist art in her free time. Citizen She! is the second book she has illustrated for Helvetiq. The first was Ting!