 Susan Casey is the author of Women Invent! Two Centuries of Discovery That Have Shaped Our World, chosen as one of the top 10 history books for girls, and of Kids Inventing! A Handbook for Young Inventors, a chapter of which is anthologized in the McGraw Hill Open Court Reading Series Imagine It 2009. |
 Brian P. Cleary is a nine-times published author and winner of both the International Reading Association's CHILDREN'S CHOICE AWARD, and the American Library Association KID'S PICK OF THE LIST. Half a million copies of his titles have been printed and his books have been reviewed positively in the School Library Journal as well as Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Booklist. Brian's cartoon gags (including Garfield and Ziggy) have appeared in more than 600 newspapers worldwide. His school visits are fun presentations and workshops on language, poetry, word play, puns, anagrams and the importance of the written word. |
 Matthew Gollub's first language is English, but he also speaks Spanish and Japanese. His first musical book even features a fly who speaks jazz. A native of California, he has traveled much of the world. He has worked as a newscaster, translator, and touring member of a Japanese drum troupe. This award-winning author's books and presentations reflect his love for music and multicultural themes. |
 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. |
 Diane Greenseid has illustrated many books for children, including When the Pigs Took Over by Arthur Dorros and We Had a Picnic this Sunday Past by Jacqueline Woodson. Currently Diane has completed fourteen picture books. Besides doing children's picture books, Diane also does textbook illustrations as well as artwork for magazines, cards and posters. She is either sketching on tracing paper or painting on watercolor paper with acrylic paint. Either way, she feels lucky to be able to create art for a living! |
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 Deborah Nourse Lattimore began writing and illustrating books for young and zesty readers when she was in the 6th grade at Beverly Hills California. Asked to write something about ancient Egypt for a local paper competition, she won the contest with her story "Egypt from a Camel's Point of View." Ms. Lattimore has traveled all over the world as a scholar, an artist, and a writer. She loves creating picture books that take young readers on amazing journeys back through time to ancient and mysterious cultures. |
 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. |
 Michael Elsohn Ross is the award-winning author of the Happy Camper Handbook, Wormology, Toy Lab, and Earth Cycles. Michael's work as a naturalist and environmental educator in Yosemite and his travels in Ireland, Puerto Rico, and Mexico have inspired him to write over 40 books for young people.He lives at the entrance of Yosemite National Park, CA on a bluff overlooking the wild Merced River. |
 Jeff Savage is one of the nation's leading writers of non-fiction books for children. His award-winning list of more than 100 books includes biographies of positive role models in sports and entertainment, current events, and historical accounts of settling the West. |
 David M. Schwartz says, "There is nothing I enjoy more than visiting schools and speaking to the children who are my readers. I try to fill their minds with the same sense of wonder that I have always had for the world around me, and I try to get them to see math in ways they've never considered before. It thrills me that they can think, laugh and learn at the same time." |
 Kat Shehata is a former zookeeper who went to school with a bunch of animals…literally! She spent her junior and senior years of high school as a student at the Cincinnati Zoo's Animal Conservation and Care Program. Kat earned a bachelors degree from Wilmington College and a professional writing certificate from the University of Cincinnati. Kat is the author of San Francisco's Famous Sea Lions. |
 Laurie Story Vela or Mother Goose Rapper puts the FUN in the fundamentals of Literacy and English Language Development through interactive, imaginative materials that feature original, child-centered stories, rhymes, songs and characters. |
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