Do you love kids? Or are you a kid? If so, you've come to the right place. 

You can 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

Besides being an author 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: