Giovanna Zoboli was born in 1962 in Milan, where she lives and works. She has collaborated with numerous publishing houses as an editor, curator and editor. She is the author of poems, short stories, tales and novels for children and adults, published in Italy and abroad. Since 1994, she has worked in children’s literature. With Mondadori Ragazzi she has published several volumes, including some successful titles for teenagers signed with the pseudonym Giulia Goy. Together with Paolo Canton, she created, in 1998, I Libri a naso and, in 2004, Topipittori, publishing brands specialized in illustrated volumes. She works in editorial and corporate communication for the Calamus studio. Her books have received important Italian and foreign awards, such as the Andersen Award 2007 and 2008 for best comic book 0-6, and the White Ravens Award 2004 and 2005. In 2006, with the character of Pilly, she won the Comicon Micheluzzi Award, as best comic strip writer. Since 2006, she has collaborated with the magazine “Hamelin. Notes on the collective imagination” with articles dedicated to the themes of illustrated books and childhood. Since 2005, in Bologna, at the Drosselmeier Academy, she has held a course on words and images in picture books.