Vanita Oelschlager is a wife, mother, grandmother,
philanthropist, former teacher, current caregiver, author and poet.
She is a graduate of Mt. Union College in Alliance, Ohio, where she
currently serves as a Trustee. Vanita is also Writer in Residence
for the Literacy Program at The University of Akron. She and her
husband Jim received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society in 2006. She won the Congressional
'Angels in Adoption' Award for the state of Ohio in 2007 and was
named National Volunteer of the Year by the MS society in 2008. She
was honored as 2009 Woman Philanthropist of the Year by the Summit
County United Way. In May 2011, Vanita received an honorary Doctor
of Humane Letters from University of Mount Union.
Prior to her publishing and writing career, Vanita taught school
for 19 years and then helped her husband with his company, Oak
Associates. Mother of two daughters, stepmother to a son and
daughter, she is grandmother to seven.
Robin Hegan is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Integrative Arts. Her illustrations can be seen in Birds of a Feather, Mother Goose Other Goose, My Grampy Can't Walk, and The Lizard House Adventure. Hegan lives in Pennsylvania with her family.
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