Jaco Jacobs is the most popular and prolific children's book author in Afrikaans. He has published more than 140 books and over a million copies have been sold. Jaco is also a well-known columnist, blogger, freelance journalist and translator. He lives in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Kobus Geldenhuys is an award-winning translator who received the South African Academy for Arts and Science prize for Translated Children's and Youth Literature in Afrikaans for his translation of the third book in Cressida Cowell's popular children's series How To Train Your Dragon in Afrikaans. He is also the translator of many Harry Potter titles.