CATHY is a widow, retired, mother of 2 and grandmother of 8. She grew up on a farm in Michigan with her parents and 5 brothers and sisters. She married and moved to Virginia and has lived there for 56 years. She is a lifetime writer of poems in various genres with the most recent focused on writing poems for young children. This is her fi rst published book of poetry and a fi rst in a series of "Read to Me" books.