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About the Author
Lauren Collen has a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from Wayne State University and a master's degree in library and information science from Dominican University; in 2005 she was awarded the C. Berger Entrepreneurial Promise Award. She is a youth services librarian at the Niles (Ill.) Public Library District outside of Chicago, where she does storytelling, creates and conducts programs for babies, preschoolers, and school-age children, and does graphic design and mural displays as the artist for the youth services department. She is at work on her first picture book.
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