Jelka Godec Schmidt (1958) is a renowned illustrator, painter, comics artist, and writer. Over a period of almost fifty years, more than a hundred children’s and young adult books with her illustrations have been published. She has illustrated numerous textbooks and educational non-fiction texts, as well as designed several calendars, posters, and puppets for the puppeteer Cveto Sever. Since 1995, her works have been regularly exhibited at the Slovenian Biennial of Illustration, and she has also held many solo exhibitions. She has also devoted herself to writing children’s books, especially comic books (The Happy Cow Kindergarten, Cicigang) and original picture books. Her series Losey the Elf and the Chameleon has been translated into a number of languages. Her original stories are collected in the anthology Hooray, Hurrah! She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Levstik Award, the Hinko Smrekar Award, and the Levstik Lifetime Achievement Award.