Presenters for childrens programs
“I always felt I was born into the wrong century,” Patty Pfitsch says. Inspired by her favorite childhood books, Caddie Woodlawn and Little House in the Big Woods, she persuaded her husband to move to a 100 year-old farmhouse in the forgotten hills of southwestern Wisconsin, an hour away from Read more…
Picture book author Jim Aylesworth tells his stories with generous doses of loud sounds, rhythms and rhymes. His experiences as a teacher have taught him that these are the elements children like in a story, especially when it is being read aloud. So, in Hanna’s Hog, Aylesworth includes a loud Read more…
Julie Bowe grew up just outside of Luck, WI, within a Danish-American community called West Denmark. As a young Dane she learned that blue plates are hung on walls, not set on tables, Christmas trees are danced around, and the secret to a great pot of coffee is a raw Read more…
Jacqueline Houtman spent much of her life in training as a scientist, earning a PhD in Medical Microbiology and Immunology. After leaving the lab, she began a career as a freelance science writer. She has written for scientific journals, educational publishers, magazines, and nonprofits. Her middle grade novel, The Reinvention Read more…
Janet Halfmann is an award-winning children’s author who strives to make her books come alive for young readers and listeners. She has written more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction. Her Civil War era nonfiction picture book, Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story (Lee & Low Books, Read more…