Mykola Matwijczuk, author/editor, 1932 Edition. Deceased. Information not known about this author.

Lorene Shyba MFA PhD. About The Little Book she says, "My Babka, my loving grandmother, read me stories from this wondrous Little Book. This cherished volume has been with me through my entire life. I proudly present a re-vitalized edition of The Little Book to celebrate the resiliency of the Ukrainian people and our language. I am immensely proud of my partners at Friesens Printing in Winnipeg and Blitzprint in Calgary for donating the printing for The Little Book. Slava Ukraini."

Lorene is Director and Publisher at Durvile & UpRoute Books and author of the Introduction of The Little Book. Lorene has worked professionally in book and magazine publishing for over three decades with expertise in writing and editing, print and web design, and audiobook production. Her doctoral degree from the University of Calgary is in interactive media and she has been on faculty in departments of creative arts, communications, and computer science at the University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, Montana Tech, and McMaster University. The print, audio, and e-book series that she currently oversees are Durvile's True Cases series and Reflections series, UpRoute's Spirit of Nature Indigenous series, and the Every River Lit series.

The book was translated by Dr. Magda Stroinska, Dept. of Linguistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and by musician and music teacher Volodymyr Shyba of Odessa and Chernihiv, Ukraine.