Rita GiorgioAs the youngest of six and the product of two beautiful Italian immigrants, I enjoyed endless love, ate everything homemade (including the soup made from my father's never-ending loving vegetable garden), and overcame the scarcity of toys by inventin my own entertainment. My especially vivid imagination took me many places, and I recall how often I spent my days lying in the daisy fields transforming the clouds into fantastical worlds. At night, I would transcribe these ideas into a voluminous journal.

It was much later in life when my youngest of three daughters listened to me recite my old writing, and offered to complete the last sentence with her own rhyme, that I realized I should transition my efforts into children's books. I am extremely excited and thankful to share to these completed works with you now; and, I trust their words will spark your imagination, too!

Stella Jurgen is a gifted illustrator, painter, and cartoonist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of Portuguese and Italian descent, Stella grew up in Portugal and became a successful pop music recording artist with her sister Marcela. She studied fine arts in Lisbon for a short period of time before immigrating to Canada in 1985. She specialized in graphic design, and in 1998 she founded 17 Designs, in partnership with her husband Norm. Their combined talent made 17 Designs an award-winning design studio providing large and small enterprises with branding and website development services. In 2019, she expanded her artistic skills to include television by hosting and producing a weekly program dedicated to arts and culture. Stella is the recipient of the 2022 International Portuguese Music Awards, USA, for the direction and animation of the music video of the year "Lisbon". Read More Read Less