Stephanie C. Blitstein, a retired Language Arts teacher, holds a Master's Degree in Secondary English Education. She began writing children's stories, in her spare time, about her favorite mystical character, the Sandman, mostly when she, herself, could not fall asleep. Wake Up, Sandman! is the first volume of her series, followed by several more adventures and misadventures, where both Sandman and the reader often learn valuable life lessons. Her Sandman books are designed to not only entertain young readers, but to introduce them to a variety of rhyme patterns and poetic devices, in addition...