Date: April 25, 2010
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: picture books, poetry, writer and illustrator
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: picture books, poetry, writer and illustrator
Whitehead, Jenny
Jenny Whitehead is the author/illustrator of Lunch Box Mail (2001—a collection of poems from a child’s point of view), Holiday Stew (2007—poems based on holidays and seasons) and illustrator of Punctuation Celebration (2009—poems about punctuation marks written by Elsa Knight Bruno). She enjoys writing poetry, stories, and young adult fiction. Her artwork style involves painting and collage, layering cut paper and tissue paper. Her website is www.jennywhitehead.com.
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Ingalls, Ann
Ann Ingalls has worked as a freelance writer since January of 2002. In that time, she sold LITTLE PIANO GIRL (2009) to Houghton Mifflin, a book she co-authored with her sister, Maryann Macdonald. Highlights High Five, The Kansas City Star, Learning Express LLC, Primary Treasure, Reiman Publications, Babytalk, Adams Media, Way of St. Francis and many other publishers have used work of hers. She has written curricula for early childhood, elementary and special education in Michigan and Missouri, Praxis II (competency) exams for early childhood educators and ACT Prep tests.
Professional memberships include: JWKC Classic, SCBWI, Missouri Writer’s Guild, Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors, the Liberty Arts Commission and Reach Out and Read, Kansas City.
Please contact Ann for information about programs on jazz, the Underground Railroad and writing in general.
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Elwood, Tessa
Tessa Elwood is a photographer/webdesigner who writes YA, reads Garth Nix, and listens to everything from Iris to audiobooks. Her current novel is somewhere in the land of magical realism (without magic), her last straight up contemporary.
Clardy, Tammy
Tammy has been published in The Missouri Reader, The Cash-Book Journal, and CowboyPoetry.com. She is currently marketing humorous children’s poetry and working on her first memoir.
