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	Robin Brickman is an illustrator of children's picture books which are about the natural world, artistic creativity, and the fantasy world of ghosts. With a background as a teacher in high school, then holding workshops at the Norman Rockwell Museum, Robin brings with her a deep knowledge of her subject matter and educational techniques when she visits schools.
	Robert Casilla is an illustrator of many books for children, which has afforded him the great opportunity since 1989, to visit schools all over the United States. In these school visits, he does a visual presentation titled: "How I Illustrate a Children's Book."
	Marguerite W. Davol writes mostly original folk tales, pourquoi, and tall tales, and visits schools as a Children's Book Author and Storyteller. Marguerite frequently presents adult workshops at conferences for writers, storytellers, and educators.
	Diane deGroat has free-lanced in advertising, editorial, and design, but the main focus of her work has been in children's book illustration, with over 120 books to her credit. Many titles are for well-known authors but her most recent challenge has been writing and illustrating her own stories.
	Mike Graf is a former classroom teacher and TV weatherman. He knows how to speak to children and his assemblies are highly engaging and informative. Mike has written over 70 books for children and teachers. Mike’s presentations include personally-experienced, gripping tales about scorpion encounters, flash floods, dinosaur digs, wolf sightings, bears encounters, cave rescues and explorations, thunderstorms and lightning strikes, tornado chasing, national parks adventures, rock-climbing and many other subjects. He also presents information on weather, the writing process, and how to create great stories.
	Irene Kelly My grown-up life as an author and illustrator of children’s books is not that different from my childhood. I still read and write a lot, and spend tons of time outside. I have tea in the afternoon and still play Scrabble and kick-the-can. When I’m not working on my books, I often visit schools to talk about writing and illustrating. I feel very lucky to be a children’s book author and illustrator, as well as the proud companion to a chicken named Betty and a dog named Nellie.”
	Mark Marderosian is trained in illustration animation and cartooning After graduating with a degree in animation from Massachusetts College of Art, he illustrated picture books, storybooks, and coloring books for Walt Disney Publishing, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hasbro, and many others for over twenty years. Mark has taught all styles of cartooning and animation to all ages -- elementary school, middle school and college. His classes are met with great enthusiasm and excellent reviews.
	Jeff Nathan is the creator of PunOETRY and was selected as one of the nation's funniest poets by Meadowbrook Press. An award-winning children's author, educator, poet, singer and songwriter, Jeff is also the creator of CurricuLaughs, a set of curriculum-tied very humorous programs that are wildly popular with children and teachers. Principal after principal after principal after principal all say that Jeff Nathan's CurricuLaughs programs have the most lasting positive effects on students that they have ever seen. See several principals™ letters at www.IncredibleAssemblies.com. Don't miss out on unique EDUCATION THROUGH SIDE-SPLITTING HUMOR at your school.
	Michael Elsohn Ross is the award-winning author of the Happy Camper Handbook, Wormology, Toy Lab, and Earth Cycles. Michael's work as a naturalist and environmental educator in Yosemite and his travels in Ireland, Puerto Rico, and Mexico have inspired him to write over 40 books for young people. He lives at the entrance of Yosemite National Park, CA on a bluff overlooking the wild Merced River.
	Shelley Rotner brings a depth of experience and knowledge to her books with a diverse background as an elementary school teacher, museum educational specialist and UNICEF photographer. She is an award winning author and photo-illustrator of over twenty books.