This series has reached over 750,000 children and has been translated into nine languages and counting.
In 2006, in the days of my first career as an elementary school art teacher, Dave Reisman, one of my student's parents, approached me with a great idea for a book and we teamed up.
Through early childhood literacy organizations such as this one and Reach Out And Read, with the generous support of a local foundation, the books continually to be distributed free to thousands of underprivileged children, mostly through pediatricians and social service agencies.