Dorothy Diane Donohue was an art teacher before she began illustrating and writing children's books. After working at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, she started to do children's books. Currently Dorothy has published 16 picturebooks and the 16th is due to be available in the spring of 2008. |
 Mike Graf is a former classroom teacher and TV weatherman. He knows how to speak to children and his assemblies are highly engaging and informative. Mike has written over 70 books for children and teachers. Mike’s presentations include personally-experienced, gripping tales about scorpion encounters, flash floods, dinosaur digs, wolf sightings, bears encounters, cave rescues and explorations, thunderstorms and lightning strikes, tornado chasing, national parks adventures, rock-climbing and many other subjects. He also presents information on weather, the writing process, and how to create great stories. |
 Justin Matott was in the corporate world when he wrote his first adult book. Random House picked him up and he has been writing full time ever since. Justin has been a storyteller all his life. In his books he blends real life events with imagination and believes there are stories all about us, just waiting to be written. |
 R. Gary Raham a former science teacher, is a science writer/illustrator/graphic artist with a special interest in making science fun for kids. |
