Authors and Illustrators Biographies

I write and illustrate picture books because I've never outgrown a deep childhood urge to enter a magical world. As a child growing up in Los Angeles, I used to wish that my huge, congested city were more like the places in the books that I loved - places where forests grew and seasons changed, where animals talked and anything was possible. I envied those characters who slid down rabbit holes, or visited with Charlotte and Wilbur, or flew with Peter Pan, or floated with Mary Poppins, or journeyed to Oz...

Nancy Barnett	North/Central	April 2003
Carol Benioff	East Bay	May 2003
Cindy Ann Ganaden	South San Francisco	June2003
Deborah Nourse Lattimore	North/Central	July 2003
Sara Iravani Kahn	South San Francisco	September 2003
Elisa Kleven	North/Central	October 2003
Jan Adkins	North/Central	November 2003
Joy Allen	North/Central	December 2003
Yuyi Morales	East Bay	January 2004
Liz Cunningham	East Bay	February 2004
Brooke Scudder	South San Francisco	March 2004
Paula Pertile	South San Francisco	April 2004
Lauren Francis	South San Francisco	May 2004
Mike Maystead	South San Francisco	July 2004
Kris Aro McLeod	North/Central	August 2004
Barbara Pollak	South San Francisco	October 2004
Sherry Rogers	North/central	September 2004
Kirsten Carlson	South San Francisco	November 2004

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