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Sergio Ruzzier

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My website: http://www.ruzzier.comMy blog: http://www.ruzzier.com/category/blog/I was born in Milan, Italy, in 1966. I grew up reading comics and picture books. Among my favorite books were the Minarik/Sendak's Little Bear series, Bruno Munari's "Cappuccetto Verde" ("Little Green Riding Hood") , and Dino Buzzati's "La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia". As a young teenager, I discovered and fell in love with the old American comics: Krazy Kat, Popeye, Dick Tracy, and many more.At the same time, I was surrounded and fascinated by Medieval and Early Renaissance art,...

Tonya Duncan Ellis

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Tonya Duncan Ellis is author of the Amazon bestselling, Readers' Favorite "Five Star" rated, Sophie Washington children's book series, geared toward readers ages 8 to 12, and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) , the Authors Guild, and the Brown Bookshelf's Highlights Foundation-sponsored, Amplify Black Stories storyteller cohort. She's a 2022 winner of SCBWI's Independently Published Book Launch Marketing Grant, and in 2021, she won the Austin SCBWI Cynthia Leitich Smith Writing Mentor Award. A former journalist and freelance magazine...