Alona Frankel (Hebrew: אלונה פרנקל, 27 June 1937) is a Polish-born Israeli writer and illustrator of many classic children's books as well as recently published poetic memoirs for young adults.

[1] Alona Frankel was born in 1937 in Kraków, Poland, and spent her childhood during the Holocaust in the Lwów Ghetto, then in hiding; first alone, later with her parents.

Frankel has won numerous prizes, including an Hans Cristian Andersen Honor Citation and multiple Parent's Choice awards.

Frankel gained international popularity and recognition when its English translation, Once Upon a Potty, appeared in 1980 for boys – Joshua – and girls – Prudence.

[4] Following numerous awards and honors for her picture book works, in 2005, Frankel won Israel's Sapir Prize for Literature for her memoir, Girl, about her childhood and the Second World War in Poland, spent under an assumed identity or in hiding.