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| P.J. HarteNaus has reached one of her many goals in her life...that of being an author. At the age of eight, she read Laura Ingalls Wilder books with a passion. Her grandmother would give those books to her as gifts and together they would share the stories over and over again. These books, of course, helped to form....[more] |
| "I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself." - DR. SEUSS
"B O O K S A R E M Y F R I E N D S" - CYNTHIA JABAR
Cynthia Jabar has written and illustrated 4 picture books for chil....[more] |
| Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[more] |
| Alma Alexander is a novelist whose work has appeared in more than a dozen languages worldwide. Some of her best known works are "The Secrets of Jin Shei" and the YA Worldweavers trilogy ("Gift of the Unmage", "Spellspam", "Cybermage") She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two cats, and assorted visiting ....[more] |
| Maggie Anton was born Margaret Antonofsky in Los Angeles, California. Raised in a secular, socialist household, she reached adulthood with little knowledge of her Jewish religion. All that changed when David Parkhurst, who was to become her husband, entered her life, and they both discovered Judaism as adults. That was....[more] |
| Writes and illustrates books for children, primarily picture books and early-reader chapter books. The subject matter tends to be childhood social-issues oriented:
Shyness & Moving Away (A Tiger Called Thomas),
Friendship & Feeling left out (I'm Not Invited?),
Practice and Perseverance (Our Marching Band),
Diffi....[more] |
| Erik wrote his first book, The Practically Perfect Pajamas (Winslow Press 2000), because he wanted to have something to illustrate. Ten years and 13 books later, he is working full-time in the children's book world and is currently testing the waters of better self-promotion :)
Stay tuned for a more complete bio so....[more] |
| It's no secret how Jen Calonita knows the inside scoop on young Hollywood. A former Senior Entertainment Editor at Teen People, Jen has interviewed everyone from Reese Witherspoon to Zac Efron. An entertainment journalist for the past ten years, Jen has written for TV Guide, Glamour and Marie Claire.
Jen's first nov....[more] |
| Mary Newell DePalma is the author and illustrator of four children’s books: "The Strange Egg," a whimsical tale of wonder, curiosity, and friendship; A Grand Old Tree, a simple and beautiful tale about life itself; The Nutcracker Doll, about a child’s role in the Boston Ballet Nutcracker; and "The Perfect Gift," an adv....[more] |
| With a childhood spent traveling the globe, writer Elysabeth Eldering developed a passion for geography. Growing up in a military family, Elysabeth lived in Japan, Germany, New York, Kentucky, and Texas before her family finally settled in a small town in South Carolina. Elysabeth, who lives in Honea Path, put her glob....[more] |
| Author and illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1962. Some of her well-known works are Lizzy and Skunk; I'm a Tiger, Too!; You, Me and the Big Blue Sea; and The Long March. She has received numerous awards, including two Reading Association of Ireland Children's Book Awards, the Irish Chi....[more] |
| Milian France is an author and illustrator of ESL and Adult Literacy books, Self-Help books and fiction. She was raised in New Mexico, and has lived in Greece, Hawaii and Ireland, but considers the Los Angeles area of Southern California home. She is also a now non-active member of the Writers Guild of America, west,....[more] |
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