Do you love kids? Or are you a kid? If so, you've come to the right place. Please click on the "books" link in the box on the left to see the ones I've written for children.

You can also find out about the published writing, speaking, and teaching I do by clicking on the other links.

You can see more about children and read some book reviews at my blog, http://onwordsblog.blogspot.com

Besides being a writer, speaker, and teacher I've been a parent, foster parent of kids with special needs, and I'm now a grandparent.

If you're interested in special needs please look at my other blog, http://janetanncollins.blogspot.com

My claims to fame are:       
      Although I don't know how to dance, I once performed with the Joffrey Ballet at the San Francisco Opera House.      
     As a student working in a library I got so good at mending books they let me mend a Gutenberg Bible.    
      I once had a conversation with Koko the gorilla who knows American Sign Language.


Here's what I look like: