Ann StalcupAnn Stalcup has just retired from a lifetime of primary school teaching and has a passion for travel, art, music, dance, and picture books. After teaching in England and Canada, she moved to California in 1963 and has been writing ever since. She haseighteen published books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. Much of her work is inspired by her extensive travels with her teacher husband. Her over one hundred magazine articles, mostly for children, feature the life and culture of other countries.