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Three Authors of Books for Children Autographing at Schuler Books in Grand Rapids MI on Thursday, December 12, 2019 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Parent Shop Night on Thursday, December 12, 2019 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.—Meet Michigan children’s book authors Janet Ruth Heller, Jayne M. Rose-Vallee, and Kenneth Kraegel!  Their books will be available for purchase and autographing.  Janet will be autographing her books How the Moon Regained Her Shape, which is an award-winning picture book about bullying, and The Passover Surprise, which is a middle-grade chapter book about sibling rivalry.  Jayne will be autographing her award-winning picture book Dinosaurs Living in My Hair.  Kenneth will be signing his award-winning picture books King Arthur’s Very Great Grandson and Green Pants.  Location:  Schuler Books at 2660 28th St., S.E, in Grand Rapids MI 49512.  The bookstore’s phone is 616-942-2561.  Its website is https://www.schulerbooks.com/

Cover of How the Moon Regained Her Shape; artist is Ben Hodson

Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).