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Awesome Achievers in Technology

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Part of a super fun middle grade series, Awesome Achievers in Technology puts the spotlight on lesser-known heroes and their contributions in tech.Everyone has heard the name Steve Jobs, but what about Nolan Bushnell--Jobs's boss before the invention of Apple,… Read More
Awesome Achievers in Science

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Part of a super fun middle grade series, Awesome Achievers in Science puts the spotlight on lesser-known heroes and their contributions in major scientific fields.Everyone has heard the names Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, but what about Michael Collins--the third… Read More

Alan Katz

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Alan Katz is the author of many highly acclaimed children’s books, including the Awesome Achievers series, Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs, Don’t Say That Word! OOPS!, Poems I Wrote When No One Was Looking, and The Day the Mustache Took Over and its sequel, The Day the Mustache Came Back. Alan is also a six-time Emmy-nominated writer for TV and has created comic books, trading card sets, web videos, TV commercials, and hundreds of other special projects for kids and parents. He lives with his family in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Gary Boller is an illustrator from the United Kingdom, where he lives with his wife and two children, one chihuahua, and four cats. He loves music and is learning the fiddle (much to the annoyance of the aforementioned animals).

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