My Busy Green Garden

Terry Pierce is the author of sixteen children s books, including picture books, easy readers, joke books and non-fiction. She was a Montessori pre-primary teacher for twenty-two years, before deciding to follow her dream of writing for children (what she calls, "the best mid-life crisis ever!"). Terry now writes full-time, teaches children's writing workshops, and is a visiting author at elementary schools. She also proudly serves on the Ventura/Santa Barbara regional board of the Society of Children s Book Writers and Illustrators. Picking blackberries with her son on a summer vacation in Oregon inspired her to write Blackberry Banquet (and to master the art of baking of the perfect berry pie).

CAROL SCHWARTZ has illustrated more than 50 picture books, including My Busy Green Garden, which Kirkus called "a lovely literary and artistic rendering." Her other books include Sea Squares (an Outstanding Science Trade Book and Children's Choice award winner), The Maiden of Northland (an Aesop Accolade List book), and Thinking about Ants (an Outstanding Science Trade Book). Carol taught illustration at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and has shared her passion for illustrating at the hundreds of elementary schools, libraries, conferences, and colleges she has visited.