Marie-France Comeau is Acadian and lives in Baie des Chaleurs, northern New Brunswick. Her first story, L'étoile dans la pomme, won her the Dr Marilyn Trenholme Counsell Literacy Award and is a Bouton d'or Acadie best-seller. Author of Diego l'escargot and Le Pit à papa, Marie-France Comeau never stops creating and travelling to tell her stories. She has been received many times in France. Her show Quelles histoires! with pianist Lucien Allard has toured Québec and Acadie.