Presenters for childrens programs
Ann Angel, a writer, editor and professor in the graduate program in writing at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, focuses her work on family and young adult sensibilities and issues. Her critically acclaimed young adult biography, Janis Joplin:Rise Up Singing, was awarded the 2011 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award by the Read more…
Laura Schaefer is the author of The Teashop Girls (Simon & Schuster, 2008), a novel for young readers set in Madison, Wisconsin. She got her start as a contributor to the University of Wisconsin’s student paper The Daily Cardinal as its book reviewer and literature page editor. Laura went on Read more…
Kai has been a performing artist for over 15 years, she holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theater Directing and Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also studied Kinesiology and Movement. She has been a featured storyteller at the Taste of Chicago, African Festival of Read more…
JoAnn Early Macken’s newest picture books are Waiting Out the Storm (Candlewick Press, 2010) and Flip, Float, Fly: Seeds on the Move (Holiday House, 2008). Baby Says, “Moo!” will be published by Disney-Hyperion Books in spring 2011. JoAnn has also written an assortment of poems, several articles for writers, and Read more…
Peggy Tromblay’s children’s writing includes everything from picture books to novels. Her award-winning work has appeared in various children’s magazines, Writer’s Digest, and The Institute of Children’s Literature’s anthology on revision. Children’s Writer newsletter describes her work as a “great example of humor.” When Peggy’s not writing for kids, she’s Read more…
After earning her Masters in Counseling Psychology, Deborah Lynn Jacobs worked as a counselor at a community college in Ontario. After ten years, she and her husband and children moved to the isolated northern town of Kenora, Ontario. There, she taught college courses in psychology as well as pre-employment and Read more…
Dori Chaconas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The second child in a family of seven, she fell into the role of storyteller, nursery rhyme singer, and general entertainer for her siblings. She claims she learned about story pacing early. If the story action lagged, her fidgety audience would either scatter Read more…
Sharon Coyle is a storytime presenter/storyteller who loves seeing the excited faces of children when they are listening to a tale. She has been doing storytime programs since 2003 at coffee houses, libraries, day care centers, Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us and currently at the Children’s Play Gallery in Delafield. She also Read more…
Lisa Wheeler has written 17 books for children including Dino-Hockey, Sailor Moo: Cow at Sea, When Pigs Fly and Mammoths on the Move. Awards include the Michigan Library Association’s 2004 Mitten Award for Old Cricket, the 2005 Missouri Building Block Award and the 2006-2007 South Carolina Picture Book Award for Read more…
Lisa Rondinelli Albert grew up in Milwaukee where she spent countless hours at Finney Library. Lisa’s most recent nonfiction book, Stephenie Meyer: Author of the Twilight Saga (Enslow 2009), is the very first biography of Stephenie Meyer. Her other books with Enslow include, Lois Lowry: The Giver of Stories and Read more…