The writers are Astrid Lindgren, Elly Jannes, Leah Goldberg and Cordelia Edvardson.
The book series deals with children from Europe, Asia or Africa, and also one from USA (Hawaii) whose everyday lives are described with images and a small amount of text.
At first Anna Riwkin-Brick took photographs of Elle-Kari and her surrounding and then Elly Jannes wrote the story.
[1] The book series was translated into 18 additional languages, including English, German (titled: Kinder unserer Welt – Children of our World[2]) and Hebrew (titled: ילדי העולם – Children of the World).
[5] In 2014 the Israeli director Dvorit Shargal made a 50 minutes film (Where Is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-san?)
about what had happened to Elle-Kari, Dirk, Noriko-san and Eva and the children from the Israeli books in the series.