Soriani, Manuela

Colleen will tell you that having four kids is great because you can say things like, "It is not ok to roast marshmallows over my scented candle," and because they are a never-ending supply of material for books. After 15 years in marketing and freelance writing, Colleen first turned to children's book writing as a project to raise money for a foster home in Beijing, China, where her family was living at the time. Super Easy Storytelling, her first children's book (written with her daughter), is about how to tell stories together on the fly- which was the family's way of calming the chaos that...