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Gender	Female
Location	Portland, Oregon, United States
Introduction	I have drawn pictures for as long as I can remember. My favorite possessions (besides books) were crayons, pencils, and felt pens and I even won first prize in a coloring contest when I was in the second grade. I still draw but now I usually work with oil pastels on black paper. Animals are my main subject matter. Whether I'm illustrating children's books, creating designs for products or working on fine art, animals always seem to pop up. I don't know why, they just do. Oh yeah, and I write too. My books include: Goodnight Sigmund – Harcourt 1992, Dogs In Space – Harcourt 1993, Tom’s Fish – 1994, The Dog Who Cried Woof – Harcourt 1995, The Great Space Doghouse – Flying Rhino 2000, What’s Cookin’? – Chronicle Books – 2003, Pug in a Truck – Houghton Mifflin 2006 Fred Stays With Me – Little Brown &Co. 2007, Big, Bigger, Biggest – Henry Holt 2009, Listen – a Young Adult novel – WestSide Books 2009, and Catch That Baby! 2011 Simon and Schuster, as well as its companion book, Uh, Oh Baby! also with Simon and Schuster, 2013. I live with my family in beautiful Baker City, Oregon and work under the strict supervision of Twig, the terrible min pin.