JOANNE SHERMAN, M.S., R.N., A.P.N., C.

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Joanne Sherman is a wife, mother of two, a certified Psychoanalyst,  Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse Clinical Specialist, and an award winning author.   In addition to writing the Keep 'Em Safe Series: Anxiety-free Learning for Children, Joanne has a psychotherapy practice in New Jersey, and a consulting firm that designs and delivers human development programs in corporate, medical and school systems.

Joanne wrote Because It’s My Body! for her own children when her oldest was 4 years old. She wanted to be able to read a book to them about preventing molestation and sexual abuse, but with a very important catch. The book had to be non-anxiety producing, hold no potential for damaging young minds, and the book had to leave her children with a sense of empowerment. To meet all of those criteria, it also had to be written specifically for the 4-8 year old mindset. Unable to find exactly what she wanted, Joanne wrote Because It’s My Body!

Because It's My Body is the first book in Joanne's Keep 'Em Safe Series. Her other books to be released shortly will deal with issues of preventing abduction and teaching children how to deal with dangerous objects.

JOHN STEVEN GURNEY

John Steven Gurney grew up in Bucks County Pennsylvania. He studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and spent the summer drawing caricatures on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ. He lived in New York City until 1997, when he moved to Vermont where he currently lives with his wife and two children.

He has illustrated over 80 books for children, including all of the titles in Scholastic's "The Bailey School Kids" series and Random House's "The A to Z Mysteries" series.

"Dinosaur Train", John's first book as both author and illustrator, will be published by Harper Collins in the Fall of 2002.

For more information visit John's website:
http://www.author-illustr-source.com/johnstevengurney.htm