Kris Di Giacomo is an American who has lived in Paris since childhood. She has illustrated over 25 picture books. Many of these have been translated into many other languages. Di Giacomo earned her BFA from the Parsons School of Design in Paris. At Parsons, she studied painting, drawing, and sculpture. After college, Di Giacomo taught English to young French speakers. Teaching English led Di Giacomo to discover an interest in children's literature and the art of book illustration. Her first idea was to do a book for French-speaking children about English titled La Maîtresse Dit Hello. A fluent French and English speaker, Di Giacomo considers pictures her third language and her most universal means of communication. The language gap is a theme Di Giacomo explores in her books Sans Le A (Kaléidoscope, 2013) and Take Away The A (Enchanted Lion Books, 2014), written by Michaël Escoffier. Sans Le A and Take Away The A depend on French and English wordplay, respectively. Neither text survives translation. Thus they are thematically united but unique works. Each has a different text and illustrations specific to those texts. Together, these books reveal the differences between French and English, not only as languages but as ways of thinking. Sans Le A was awarded Le Prix Jeunesse des Librairies du Québec in 2013. Kris Di Giacomo currently divides her time between working on new books and meeting her readers at schools and book fairs throughout France.