About Us
Pat Kittelson - Author
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Pat Kittelson lives in Missoula, Montana; she has a master’s degree in Library Science with a specialty in the history of children’s picture books. Pat is a backyard beekeeper and enjoys working in her garden, knitting, making jam and of course reading picture books. She has lived in Western Samoa working as a Peace Corps Volunteer and in New Zealand working as a librarian and knitting sweaters.
Author Statement
I believe that life creates a series of good stories. We share stories and we learn from them. We tell stories when we have no other words to express compassion, sorrow, love, and happiness. When I meet a person, I know that inside that person exist many, many, good stories - some to share and some to hold. I like to take stories of real people making a difference and re-tell them in a way that highlights scientific creativity.
IIllustration Brooke Connor
IIllustration Brooke Connor
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Brooke Connor, Illustrator
Bixley Baines and the Beehive Fence
Bixley Baines and the Recycled Crayons
Bixley Baines and the Thirsty Chickens
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Brooke Connor was born an artist yet with only right-brained skills, she completed a master's degree in chemistry and spent 28 years exercising her left brain. Now that that's done, it's back to her right brain and she's never going back.
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For years she drew in black and white, unable to find a medium to deliver color in a satisfactory manner. Then she gave magic markers another try. In the old days, they were heavy, opaque, and bled. Since then the industry has made huge strides in providing a full color palette, a choice of brush-like tips, chiseled, or fine point, and even the ability to refill the inks.
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Brooke makes colorful and unique illustrations, paintings, and fiber art pieces that are created from the shapes within the form and filled with exaggerated color and pattern.
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Back in the 1970's Brooke met Pat Kittelson while working at Bryce Canyon National Park. They collaborated on two children's books for the National Park Service Natural History Association.
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