Savannah Hendricks

Savannah Hendricks is the author of Nonnie and I (Xist), and co-author of Child Genius 101: The Ultimate Guide to Early Childhood Development Vol 1, 2 & 3 (Knowonder). She has over 25 pieces published in magazines and anthologies. Savannah is a member of the SCBWI, has a Master’s in Criminal Justice, and a degree in Early Childhood Education. You can learn more by visiting her blog at http://theseashellsoflife.wordpress.com/ 

Robin Newman 2016

Raised in New York and Paris, Robin Newman’s been a practicing attorney and legal editor, but she prefers to write about witches, mice, pigs, and peacocks. She lives in New York with her husband, son, goldfish, and two English Cocker Spaniels. 

Book description: 

Hildie Bitterpickles Needs Her Sleep, illustrated by Chris Ewald (Creston Books 2016), is a picture book about a witch with a little-known secret, she needs her sleep. Her quiet neighborhood has been turned upside down with the sudden noisy arrival of the old woman in her shoe, big bad wolf, and other fairy tale characters. What does a witch have to do to get a good night's sleep?

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Learn more about Robin and her other publications at: 

Website: www.robinnewmanbooks.com 

Twitter: @robinnewmanbook

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/RobinNewmanBooks/339179099505049

e-mail: robin@robinnwmanbooks.com 

Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt is a graphic designer and author/illustrator of Cat Says Meow and other animalopoeia. He is a strong advocate of visual and verbal literacy in education. He lives in NYC with his yellow dog Clooney and black cat Aiden. Follow Michael @animalopoeia on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter.

Michael says about his dot, "Creativity and education start with getting back to basics. Providing kids with both the basic tools and the neutral space with which to create endlessly from their own knowledge and imagination. This dot is a statement on the power of minimalism and teaching fundamentals first. Black and white, shapes, geometry, even punctuation. Is it a black dot on a white square, or a white square with a black hole? Is it even a white square or is that implied by the space hidden behind the black dot? Is the black dot a period? Does it represent male and female or Heaven and Earth as in ancient symbology? I would invite kids to use this to create their own idea or drawing of what it is. What happens when you fold it, cut it, or draw on it? Shrink it, multiply it, enlarge it, reverse it, stretch it, curl it?  My hope is that this dot’s unapologetic simplicity will inspire kids to be bold, be honest, be simple, be creative, and know that they are already enough without needing any embellishments to hide behind."

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Tracey M. Cox

Tracey M. Cox was born in Rochester, NY one cold December day.  Her family moved over 1,000 miles when she was in the sixth grade. She went from being a "BIG CITY" girl to "COUNTRY" girl. She moved to a very small town in South Georgia. Tracey loved storytelling since she was a little girl. Her papa used to tell her stories before bedtime every night. She loved listening about heroes and villains, giants and bears, and all sorts of other characters, and the adventures they all went on. She would fall asleep curled up against my papa with those stories swirling in my head. In school, she loved creative writing. Discovering different lands, new characters, tragedies, triumphs, and all the different styles of writing. She never took those stories any further than a grade though. When she got older, she married her high school sweetheart, Tim, and they have three sons, Nelson, Austin, and Cameron. Learn more about Tracey on her website.

Laura Murray

Laura Murray is the award-winning author of The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School, and his continuing adventures, The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck, The GB Man Loose at Christmas, and The GB Man Loose at the Zoo (GP Putnam’s Sons.) 

This humor-filled, rhyming series was inspired by a Gingerbread Man that managed to escape her classroom every single school year.

Laura lives with her family in northern Virginia. Visit her online at  www.LauraMurrayBooks.com  for loads of fun activities, printables, & CC/standards-linked teacher's guides, as well as information on school author presentations. She is also Facebook, or on Twitter at @LauraMurrayBook.

You can read “behind the scenes” stories of the GB Man books at The Nerdy Book Club – Gifts and Inspiration - https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/gifts-and-inspiration-by-laura-murray/

Laura describes her dot:  "I can’t really draw, but I can bake!  My dot is a celebration of characteristics I strive for, and try to imbue in my characters…"

Be Sweet. Be Determined. Make a bit of Mischief.

Now mix and measure those thoughts together -

and Make Your Mark on the world J! Happy Dot Day!

Nancy Armo

Nancy Armo is the author/illustrator of A Friend for Mole. (Peachtree Publishers 2016)  

Nancy lives on Long Island, NY where she shares her garden with several dirt digging moles, curious wild turkeys, and munching rabbits who have eaten ALL the lettuce.

Nancy’s dot is about the magic that happens when you share books with friends.

Learn more about Nancy at www.nancyarmo.com

Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu

Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu grew up in a Dallas suburb, but spent her weekends from age eleven in the Texas countryside, where she tamed butterflies and rode her red pony, Pokey. She had no idea at the time that she would end up living on the other side of the world. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Masters degree in Applied Linguistics, and taught reading and English for Academic Purposes at university programs in the United States, Malaysia, and Japan.

She has composed stories and poetry (mostly in her head) since her third grade teacher Mrs. Eldridge’s weekly assignment. She started Here and There Japan, a photoblog for children, in 2006 to highlight the things she and her binational, bicultural, and bilingual children saw, did, and used in their daily lives in their multigenerational home.

Her work has been published in children’s and young adult magazines. Somewhere Among, a middle grade novel, was published in 2016. (Source)

Annie writes about her dot, "In my middle grade novel, Somewhere Among, set in Japan, the main character gives a paper doll with a heart with the word "Peace" in Japanese to a bully. She wants him to put peace in his heart. For my dot, I've made two dolls surrounded by words of "peace."

Learn more about Annie on her website.