Get to know Nancy… Nancy Castaldo is a former environmental educator and author of many notable nature books for children, including Keeping Our Earth Green and River Wild. Her latest, Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and Their Noses) Save the World has received a starred review from Kirkus and is due …
Get to know Sherry… Sherry Kyle is the award-winning author of The Christian Girl’s Guide to Style, a nonfiction book for 8-12 year old girls published by Legacy Press, as well as The Girl’s Guide to Your Dream Room. Her contemporary novels, Delivered with Love and The Heart Stone, are set …
Get to know Heather… In fourth grade, Heather was sent to the hall for reading instead of paying attention in class. She was almost kicked off her little league softball team for hiding a novel in her glove when she was supposed to be playing right field. And more than …
Get to know Megan… Megan Frazer Blakemore is the author of The Water Castle (Walker, 2013), Secrets of Truth & Beauty (Disney-Hyperion 2009), and The Spy Chasers of Maple Hill (Bloomsbury, 2014). She lives in Maine with her family. For more info, visit her website. Quirky Questions You are going to …
Get to know Barbara… An award-winning author and professional wordsmith as well as a credentialed teacher in English/Language Arts, Barbara Jean Hicks, a.k.a storyteller “Barbara Jean, the Story Queen,” is the author of seven children’s picture books. Her first book for children, after having published thirteen romance novels and novellas, …
Get to know Donna… Donna Cooner is an author, blogger, speaker, and teacher currently living in Fort Collins, Colorado. A former teacher and school administrator, she is a now a professor and university administrator at Colorado State University. SKINNY (Scholastic/EgmontUK), her debut novel, was selected as one of five BEA young adult …
Get to know Tara… Street magic performer. Hog-calling champion. Award-winning ice sculptor. These are all things Tara Lazar has never been. Instead, she writes quirky, humorous picture books featuring magical places that adults never find. (Like her debut, THE MONSTORE.) Whenever she’s not sawing words in half and cobbling them …
Get to know Marty… Marty Kelley is currently a children’s author and illustrator but has, in the past, been a second grade teacher, a baker, a cartoonist, a newspaper art director, a drummer in a heavy metal band, a balloon delivery guy, an animator, and lots of other things. Some …
Get to know Aaron… Aaron Reynolds is a New York Times Bestselling Author of many highly acclaimed books for kids, including Here Comes Destructosaurus!, Carnivores, Chicks and Salsa, and the Caldecott Honor winning Creepy Carrots! He frequently visits schools and his highly participatory presentations are a blast for kids and …
Get to know Debbie… Debbie Ridpath Ohi writes and illustrates books for young people in Toronto, Canada. Recent illustration projects include NAKED! by Michael Ian Black and Judy Blume classics reissued in chapter book and middle grade format (Simon & Schuster Children’s). For Debbie’s other current and upcoming book projects …