Petrell Marie Ozbay
Petrell Marie Özbay resides with her family in South Florida. In addition to living abroad, she has also called Wisconsin and Ohio home. Her two clever and inspiring children keep her smiling through the chaos and busy searching for seashells, garden fairies and geckos. She created this story to simply help parents, regardless of their whereabouts and personal situation, bring children a goodnight hug and kiss. She hopes any child who reads this story will feel a little more ease at bedtime knowing that a parent's love will always find them.
Petrell holds an undergraduate degree and an MBA from Marquette University. Prior to publishing her first book, Petrell was a public relations executive working at some of the world's most well-respected
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Julia Donaldson
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I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).
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From kindergarten through graduation, I attended school in Affton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Then I graduated from Webster College (now Webster University) in Webster Groves, Missouri. Of course, I majored in English and kept on writing.
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I have gotten to this dubious position with absolutely no planning, and at no stage in my life could I have predicted it. But here I am.
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Anik McGrory
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Among other places, she's lived in Paris and Uganda. And has most recently lived in London in a wonderful little village neighborhood called Hampstead. Her favorite part of living in London was her walks in nearby Hampstead Heath with her husband, Glenn, her little boy, Noel, her baby daughter, Solenn, and her dogs, Moxie and Zephyr.
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Tom Fletcher
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