Books

BARBARA MAYFIELD Barbara Mayfield was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a professional actress, comedienne, puppeteer, and artist. Miss Mayfield loves to dance the two-step, waltz, and polka, and is taking ukulele lessons. The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me is her first novel.
www. BarbaraMayfield.com

JODY ALPERS and CELESTE JOHNSON have lived in Roswell, New Mexico for many years. They have collaborated on several books. T is for Tortilla is a new edition of a book they published a while ago. Jody taught with the Roswell Independent School District for 28 years. Fifteen of the years were in kindergarten with the other years being various grade levels at the elementary level. The majority of her teaching was at Washington Avenue elementary school. That is where she was teaching kindergarten when she wrote the book. She was also the director of the RISD Parkview Preschool my last 3 years. She has her Masters in Elementary Education with a minor in English from Eastern New Mexico University. The book has done well in grades K-4 especially lending itself to the New Mexico history classes required in some fourth grades. Most elementary teachers do some type of New Mexico unit each year.


SID HAUSMAN has lived in New Mexico for more than 35 years. An illustrator and western music performer, Sid has been a resident artist with the New Mexico Arts Division teaching songwriting at Navajo and pueblo schools. He currently gives workshops in public and private schools throughout the Southwest and will usually have the kids illustrate their visual interpretations of the songs they write. One Bullfrog was written during Sid¥s residency at the Beklabito Day School on the Navajo reservation near Shiprock, New Mexico. Sid asked these first graders to choose their favorite animal from the area where they lived. The animals were written down and organized by size. They decided to see how many they could get on a log and came up with fifty before the log broke. Aside from being a fun project, ONE BULLFROG has become one of Sid¥s most requested children¥s song. His newly published book is Cactus Critter Bash.


JAENET GUGGENHEIM A ballet dancer, magazine reviewer, and most recently a script writer. In her very early years, she wrote very small stories and plays, which she and her sisters would perform using hand puppets.
She and her dog Dublin live and work in Santa Fe when they are not attending classes in Los Angeles. Jaenet personally knows both HERMAN and POPPY. She wrote this story for her younger sister.
Jaenet has been diligently studying how to tell stories on film. She is about to graduate from the University of Southerrn California, but first, she is off to the London to learn a bit more. When Jaenet returns, she will write two new Herman and Poppy books!
Books by Jaenet Guggenheim:
Herman and Poppy Go Singing in the Hills
Grow Grow Grow
Next Week When I'm Big


SUANA VERELST was born in Antwerp (Belgium) and grew up in a town called Kortrijk, close to the French border in Belgium. She is the eldest of four. In 1984, she emigrated to Montreal, Quebec in Canada. After receiving degrees at Concordia University in fine arts and art history and a degree in graphic design at Dawson College in Montreal and receiving some awards for her work, she realized that she wanted to combine her love for drawing, painting, sculpting, etching, bookmaking and experimenting with materials and textures into one. Since 2001, she works as an illustrator and graphic designer. She has been working with children's book related publishers in Quebec, Belgium, and Switzerland. Next Week When I'm Big is her first US based published work.

ALAN ARKIN and JON RICHARDS

Best known for his work in film and television, Alan Arkin has found time to write several books for children - Cosmo - A Cautionary Tale is the latest. The Lemming Condition - published in 1976 - was chosen by the Booksellers of America to be placed in The White House Library. His works have been translated into many languages and read all over the world. Other children's books by Alan Arkin:
The Lemming Condition
Cassie Loves Beethoven
Tony's Hard Work Day
Some Fine Grampa
One Present from Flekman's

JON RICHARDS has been doing editorial cartoons and movie reviews in Santa Fe, NM, since the late 1980s. He has published half a dozen novels, and has also worked as a journalist, screenwriter, film translator, illustrator, and actor. His illustrations have brought Cosmo to life in all his quirky humanity.

TERRY AVERY One of the first Azro Press author/illustrators, Terry lived in the Rocky Mountain Southwest for 44 years. While she was staying at Chaco Canyon, she looked up at the full moon and was amazed to see not the Man in the Moon but a Rabbit in the Moon and not just a cute little bunny rabbit but a lanky jackrabbit with long, wind-swept ears who was the inspiration for her first book, Moon Rabbit Builds A Fine House.
She completed a second book Who Will Save Mr Squeaky? and was working on a third Wendell, the Out of Work Coyote with an ASCAP Card when she died. She is missed by all of us.


NICOLE BLAU Nicole lived in Europe for many years, most recently Denmark and Italy. Recently, she returned to the States where she was born. Her first memories of TV are Soupy Sales and the McCarthy hearings. When she was 3 years old, someone asked her what she was going to be when she grew up. She promptly answered, "I'm going to be an artist." And so she is. She's particularly fond of rabbits as you will see when you read the book she illustrated, Whatcha Doing?
Her most recent book is Cute As A Button. The illustrations are of Florence, Italy.