Maria B. Lostoski is a music teacher and children's song composer living just outside Washington DC with her husband and three children. She has taught music at Norwood School, a private K-8 school in Bethesda, since 1987. Ms. Lostoski has also written several other musical productions for pre-school through grade 1, including "The Mammal Family," "Bugs!," and "The Gifts of the Apple Tree." Ms. Lostoski has had a life-long interest in the folk song repertoire of America and beyond. Her productions frequently intersperse these well-known tunes with her own compositions, which are naturally stee...