Kathleen Sullivan O’Connor worked with Head Start’s Mental Health division and uses her experience, training, and knowledge to build a story series appropriate for our youngest learners. This book and series is also helpful with remedial and special education students. The illustrations are based on Euclidean geometry and lay a solid foundation for math. Illustrator Wingfield McGowan has taught at the preschool, elementary, and college levels for many years. She was trained in secondary education, but she gained interest in early learning while teaching her daughter and working as a tutor. Voice and guitar training helped develop her talents for rhyming and rhythm, both of which engage children and add to their interest and enjoyment of Kathleen’s material. Faye Knight, a reading specialist, always had her first grade classes reading by Christmas! Patricia Lovisek is an early childhood learning- through-conversation specialist who engages young children emotionally while challenging them to think at "the next level". Ecology, patterns, algebra, city planning - nothing was too complex for her budding genius preschoolers!