Dorothy Kunhardt
Dorothy Kunhardt was the author of over 50 children's book, including the legendary interactive baby book, Pat the Bunny. She was also a historian, writing several books about 19th century America, including a well-known account of the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination.
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Yu-Hsuan Huang
Yu-hsuan Huang, also known as Smallx2, started her career as an illustrator, working on editorials, picture books, and commercial projects. She also has her own illustration brand named Smohouse. She lives with her family and two lovely cats in Taiwan.
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Michael Joosten
Michael Joosten is a best-selling author and editor whose titles include My Two Moms & Me, My Two Dads & Me, Pride 1 2 3, and Lady Gaga: A Little Golden Book Biography. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Variety. His first book for adults, The Gay Icon's Guide to Life, will be published in spring 2024. He lives in New York City.
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Denise Dowling Mortensen
Denise Dowling Mortensen is the author of five picture books: Good Night Engines, Wake Up Engines, a board book/flip book of both Good Night Engines and Wake Up Engines, Ohio Thunder and Bug Patrol (all published by HMHCO). While listening to bedtime stories as a young girl she developed a passion for words, especially lyrical verse.
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She studied Journalism in college and went on to work at CBS News and the Conde Nast Publications. While raising her five children, she freelanced as a copy editor and proofreader. When her youngest child was a baby, she began writing books for young children.
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Sook Nyul Choi
From the days of her childhood, Sook Nyul Choi wanted to be a writer. The first stories, poems, and articles she wrote were in Korean, her first language. Later, after teaching for many years in New York City schools, she began to write in English.
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Sook Nyul Choi writes both for children and for young adults. Her own experiences in Korea help to shape her books. One of her main goals is to help young Americans learn about the culture and history of Korea. -
Joan Heilbroner
Joan Heilbroner is best known for Robert the Rose Horse, published in 1961 and acquired by Dr. Seuss. Inspired by her grandchildren and their pet snake, she wrote A Pet Named Sneaker. A Columbia graduate, she worked as a school librarian until retirement.
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Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
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Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.
In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secr -
P.D. Eastman
Philip Dey "Phil" Eastman was an American screenwriter, children's author, and illustrator. As an author, he is known primarily as P. D. Eastman. A protégé of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Eastman wrote many books for children, in his own distinct style under the Dr. Seuss brand of Random House, many of which were in the Beginner Books series.
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From 1936 to 1941, Eastman worked at the story department of Walt Disney Productions. From 1941 to 1943 he worked at the story department of Warner Bros. Cartoons. From 1945 to 1952 he worked in the story department of United Productions of America. He contributed to the "Private Snafu" World War II training films, wrote for the animation Mr. Magoo, and the Gerald McBoing-Boing series for UPA. -
David Macaulay
David Macaulay, born in 1946, was eleven when his parents moved from England to Bloomfield, New Jersey. He found himself having to adjust from an idyllic English childhood to life in a fast paced American city. During this time he began to draw seriously, and after graduating from high school he enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). After spending his fifth year at RISD in Rome on the European Honors Program, he received a bachelor’s degree in architecture and vowed never to practice. After working as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and a teacher at RISD, Macaulay began to experiment with creating books. He published his first book, Cathedral, in 1973. Following in this tradition, Macaulay created other b
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Dr. Seuss
Also wrote as Theodore Seuss Geisel, see https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads fo -
Ludwig Bemelmans
Ludwig Bemelmans, Austrian-American illustrator, wrote books, such as Madeline in 1939, for children, and his experiences in the restaurant business based Hotel Splendide , adult fiction in 1940.
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People internationally knew Ludwig Bemelmans, an author and a gourmand. People today most note his six publications to 1961. After his death, people discovered and posthumously published a seventh in 1999.
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Robert Lopshire
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Robert Lopshire wrote and illustrated the Beginner Books Put Me in the Zoo, I Want to Be Somebody New!, and New Tracks I Can Do! He died in 2002. -
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Helen Marion Palmer
Helen Marion Palmer Geisel (September 23, 1898 – October 23, 1967), known professionally as Helen Palmer, was an American actress and author and the wife of children's book writer Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). Her most well known book is Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday?, published in 1963. This book, along with two others — I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo (1962) and Why I Built the Boogle House (1964) — combined Ms. Palmer's stories with photographs by Lynn Fayman. The photographs in I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo were taken at the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, and featured children from the Francis Parker School in San Diego interacting with the zoo's animals and staff.
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William J. Bennett
William J. "Bill" Bennett is a politician and author who served in the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, as chief of National Endowment for the Humanities and later Secretary of Education under Reagan, and Drug Czar under Bush. He is a nationally well-known figure of political and social conservatism and authored many books on politics, ethics, and international relations.
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Sadie Allison
Dr. Sadie Allison, founder and CEO of Tickle Kitty, Inc., is author and publisher of today's most popular line of fun, informative, how-to sex-help books--the kind you wish you'd read earlier in life.
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Her bestselling titles include Tickle His Pickle, TOYGASMS!, Ride 'Em Cowgirl!, Tickle Your Fancy, and the new Tickle My Tush. Each has won the coveted IPPY--Independent Publisher's Best Sexuality Book Award, and together have sold 2 million copies.
As a leading authority on human sexuality for over a decade, Dr. Sadie's mission is to empower women and men to embrace a deeper enjoyment of their sexuality, through accurate education and inspiration.
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MiW Morita
Born in Osaka. Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Crafts, Department of Ceramics. painter.
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She has lived in Tokyo since 2000.
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Cari Buziak
Cari Buziak is a bestselling author and Celtic artist. She currently lives in Alberta, Canada, with one cat, two dogs, and two beehives. In a mix of old techniques (hand made gesso, egg tempera, gold leaf) and new (several Mac computers) she recreates ancient manuscripts in painted and digital form for a wide variety of publishing, merchandise, and fine art needs.
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Over the last 25 years, Cari has become one of the foremost artists of the Celtic genre. Her work has been featured in design magazines and she has had gallery exhibitions in Calgary, Toronto, Indiana, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon, Japan, London, and New York. Cari has sold worldwide, and her artwork appears in private collections in Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United St -
Edith Kunhardt
Also known as Edith Kunhardt Davis, she inspired her mother to write Pat the Bunny. She later wrote books herself, including sequels to her mother's classic children's book. She also illustrated 16 books.
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Zen Ase
The artistic entrepreneur known as Marlena “Zen Ase” Johns has lived an adventurous life, raising twin sons, and teaching high school for twenty-six years in the inner city. She was Teacher of the Year for AHS in 2011-2012 and 2017-2018, a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction and a University of Chicago Distinguished Educator. One of her plays was performed at a local community center. She won a prose contest sponsored by the University of Houston. She’s performed poetry more times than she can count at over 50 venues, hosted, and organized over 50 live music, comedy and poetry shows, Laughz and Lyrics, to both handfuls of adoring fans and wall to wall, standing room only crowds. She’s the Houston organizer for 100,000 Poets for Change, and
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Jan Yoors
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Jan Yoors was born to a cultured, liberal family of artists, but at the age of twelve he ran off with a Gypsy tribe and lived with the kumpania on and off for the next ten years. During World War II, Yoors worked with the Allies to help the Gypsies who were being systematically exterminated. He was captured twice and imprisoned until the end of the war.
In 1950 Yoors settled in New York City, where he set up a studio and constructed a 15-foot vertical loom. His wife Marianne and her sister Annebert joined him in 1951; they were to collaborate with Yoors in the weaving of all his work. His work brought him international acclaim.
In the 1960s Yoors deepened his interest in photography. He returned to Europe to reestablish contact with those Gy -
Mylo Freeman
Mylo Freeman grew up in The Hague and lives in Amsterdam. She attended the art-academy in Amsterdam and majored in illustration and painting. She has been a full-time writer-illustrator since 1993 and has published over 50 picture books. Her debut book Potty! was awarded the Kiek Book Prize and has been translated into many languages. The Princess Arabella series is one of her most well-known books and has been published in Holland, Nigeria and the UK.
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Margaret Peot
Margaret is thrilled to present her new picture book from Muddy Boots, AT NIGHT. What animals forage by night and sleep by day? This children’s picture book describes the nocturnal lives of nine common animals: foxes, porcupines, raccoons, skunks, opossums, bobcats, owls, mice, and rabbits. Join the adult animals guiding their children through the forest during the dark of night. The book includes information on the common names of the animal’s offspring (i.e. fox:kit).
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Margaret's picture book CROW MADE A FRIEND, one of Holiday House's acclaimed I LIKE TO READ series, received a starred Kirkus review and was on the Kirkus Best Books of 2015 list. Her non-fiction kid's book INKBLOT: DRIP, SPLAT AND SQUISH YOUR WAY TO CREATIVITY (Boyds Mills P -
Robert L. Fuller
Robert L. Fuller is a writer and film producer residing in the wind swept lands of central Texas. He enjoys long, solitary strolls in the woods, reading to his three precocious children, culinary adventures with his wife, and trying to get his stubborn dog to actually come when beckoned. He's been writing for thirty years and has finally decided to make his stories available to the world.
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Catherine Barr
Insta: catherinebarrbooks
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I was inspired to write my first book The Story of Life by my two girls, for whom I searched in vain for the story (rather than a text book) of evolution – in 2015. Previous to unexpectedly becoming a children's author, I worked for Greenpeace International as a campaigner on wildlife issues for many years, before becoming an Editor at the Natural History Museum in London, where I wrote summer exhibitions on Myths, Monsters and Dinosaurs. I now write narrative nonfiction that I hope will spark questions, interest and action.
I am a proud Patron of Reading for a local school and visit schools and festivals with workshops inspired by my books. I love what I do and hope my books inspire curious and challenging conversa -
Mieke Bal
Mieke Bal is a Dutch literary theorist, cultural and art historian.
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Areas of interest range from biblical and classical antiquity to 17th century and contemporary art and modern literature, feminism and migratory culture. Her many publications include A Mieke Bal Reader (2006), Travelling Concepts in the Humanities (2002) and Narratology (4th edition 2017). Her view of interdisciplinary analysis in the Humanities and Social Sciences is expressed in the profile of what she has termed “cultural analysis”, the basis of ASCA. See the video clip on the right side of this page, where I explain the approach.
Mieke is also a video artist, her internationally exhibited documentaries on migration include Separations, State of Suspension, Becoming Vera -
Chris Campbell
Prior to earning her BA in English from UMass Boston, Chris Campbell began her music journalism career in 1995, when her first Phish concert review was published in print.
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In 1997, Chris was approached by Relix Magazine's managing editor, Dean Budnick, to become a regular contributor to the not-yet-launched Jambands.com, which she did, as time and inspiration allowed. Chris later expanded her writing contributions to Jambase.com and the Live Music Blog.
Writing projects aside, Chris has worked in a variety of music industry roles, from radio intern, to load-in/load-out crew, to street team member, to merch booth attendant, to non-profit co-founder, to band publicist.
Originally from Massachusetts, Chris rented her first apartment, and lat -
Laura Wagner
I have been the book reviewer for Classic Images since 2001. I have written articles for CI, Films of the Golden Age, and other magazines since 1995. I am the coauthor (with Ray Hagen) of KILLER TOMATOES: FIFTEEN TOUGH FILM DAMES, published by McFarland & Company, Inc. (www.mcfarlandpub.com); and the sole author of ANNE FRANCIS: THE LIFE AND CAREER and HOLLYWOOD'S HARD-LUCK LADIES: 23 ACTRESSES WHO SUFFERED EARLY DEATHS, ACCIDENTS, MISSTEPS, ILLNESSES AND TRAGEDIES, both published by McFarland & Company, Inc. (www.mcfarlandpub.com); LET ME TELL YOU HOW I REALLY FEEL: THE UNCENSORED BOOK REVIEWS OF CLASSIC IMAGES' LAURA WAGNER, published by BearManor Media (www.bearmanormedia.com); and LET ME TELL YOU HOW I REALLY FEEL...AGAIN: MORE OF THE B
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Calvin Dean
Calvin Dean is the author of two best selling novels: “The Epitaph of Jonas Barloff” and "A Door Unlocked". "Curses", a humorous paranormal mystery, and "Geriatric Delinquents", a cozy southern parody are available on Amazon and other book sellers.
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Calvin started working in the creative field at age 15. As a young radio disc jockey he wrote advertising for local retailers -- even won a state-wide award at age 18.
From there he worked for an in-house advertising agency for a large department store, hired by a former copywriter for the famed Macy's in New York.
Next came television promotions and production. Calvin's promotional campaign for the news department took the station's ratings from a poor #2 to #1.
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Cooking Light
Cooking Light is an American food and lifestyle magazine founded in 1987. Each month, the magazine includes approximately 100 original recipes as well as editorial content covering food trends, fitness tips, and other culinary and health-related news.
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