The Owl Family

Chiara Morosinotto, with a degree in Evolutionary Biology, earned a PhD in Ecology in Finland, where she worked for fifteen years as a researcher. She studied anti-predator behaviors and stress responses in animals, focusing on owls. In 2022, she co-wrote her first book, La paura del leone (Rizzoli), with her brother Davide, marking the beginning of her career as a scientific communicator for young readers. She is now back in Italy, where she works as a researcher at the University of Padua and the National Biodiversity Future Center, studying the effects of heatwaves on animal behavior.

An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.

Isabella Grott is an illustrator born in Rovereto, Trentino. She earned a degree in Decorative Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, then went on to study illustration at Nemo Academy of Digital Arts, also in Florence, graduating in 2010. Since then, she has worked as a freelance illustrator while also teaching illustration in the e-design program at Nemo Academy. In 2015, she won the Il Battello a Vapore Literary Award for illustrators. Her work has been published by a range of Italian and international publishers, including Edizioni EL – Emme Edizioni, White Star Kids, Giunti, Usborne Publishing, and Penguin Random House.