Authors like Astrid Lindgren, Leah Goldberg, Eugénie Söderberg, Elly Jannes and Cordelia Edvardson wrote for the same series.

While Anna Riwkin-Brick made the photos for the book, the Swedish writer Vera Forsberg wrote the text.

[5] In Israel, the series Children of our Earth, which also includes Gennet Lives in Ethiopia, was a great success, thanks to the translations of the poet Leah Goldberg.

[6] In 2014, Israeli director Dvorit Shargal shot a 50-minute documentary titled Where Is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-san?, which deals with some of the books from the series Children's Everywhere.

[7] After the film was released, nine stories of the Children's Everywhere series were being reissued in Israel, including Gennet Lives in Ethiopia.