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Janelle Dimmett Illustrator

Pat Wahler is an award-winning writer with fifteen stories in the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Her work also appears in Sasee Magazine,Storyteller Magazine, Reader's Digest, Kansas City Voices, and other publications. A former children's librarian, Pat believes in the power of storytelling to teach and nurture children. Her debut novel, I Am Mrs. Jesse James, is available from Blank Slate Press, an imprint of the Amphorae Publishing Group. Find out more about Pat at www.patwahler.com Sheree K. Nielsen is the 2015 Da Vinci Eye Award recipient and Art Category Finalist (Eric Hoffer Foundation) for Folly Beach Dances – a 'healing’ coffee table book of photography and poetry inspired by the sea and her lymphoma journey. An award-winning author and photographer, publications include Breaking Sad, Southern Writers Magazine, AAA Southern and Midwest Traveler, Missouri Life, South and North Brunswick Magazine, and anthologies, newspapers and websites across the nation. When not writing, she’s usually discovering new beaches and coffeehouses with her goofy dogs and patient husband. Four content cats complete her family residing on three acres in Missouri. She blogs about travel, nature, pets and family at Sheree’s Warm Fuzzies, www.shereenielsen.wordpress.com. Janelle Dimmett is an illustrator specializing in line art, pattern design, and children's books. She studied Graphic Design at East Central College in Missouri before earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from the Kansas City Art Institutute. Her work is known for being busy, colorful, and vibrant, and she works primarily in markers and fine line pens. You can find her work in coloring books, jigsaw puzzles, and picture books.