Jonathan Yavin is an Israeli nov­el­ist and writer for chil­dren and YA. So far, he has writ­ten 17 books that were trans­lat­ed into sev­er­al lan­guages. His book ​“Pump­kin the Kit­ten” entered many edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams as a text­book and sold over 200 thou­sand copies. The Amer­i­can edi­tion of this book, along with the Amer­i­can edi­tion of ​“A Night at the Play­ground”, were pub­lished In the USA 2023 (Gefen Pub­lish­ers, Ohio-Jerusalem). In 2012, Yavin was award­ed the Prime Min­is­ter Levi Eshkol Prize for Writ­ers and in 2006, his chil­dren book ​“Oh, Broth­er” received the Israeli Muse­um Prize for Illus­tra­tion (art by Gilad Sof­fer). In 2022 Yavin found­ed ​“Mel­lel Pub­lish­ing House”, launch­ing his 4th fic­tion nov­el, ​“Loy­al to None but Him­self”.