Educational and Literacy Consultant
Bette-Jean
Ray-Bertram serves as
the educational and literacy consultant
for my website and as you may have guessed,
she is also my sister and
also
hails from the beautiful island of
Bermuda. BJ has been teaching
elementary school children for over
25
years. She holds a Bachelor of
Science degree in Elementary
Education
and Language Arts
from
Andrews University
in Berrien Springs,
Michigan. She also holds a Master of
Science degree in Education with an
emphasis in reading and literacy from
Walden University. BJ is currently
teaching second grade at the Forest
Lake
Education Center
in Florida.
She is a well sought after
teacher and many returning parents
request her to teach their children.
She is known for her multi-modality
approach to teaching and her ability
to make learning fun. This
approach
achieves great success in student
performance in her classroom. She
also provides tutoring services
in
reading in her private practice.
She
resides in Florida
with her
husband and their three children.
BJfaith@embarqmail.com
Gretchen Raisch-Baskin Illustrator/Artist
Gretchen
grew up on a farm in the plains of Iowa in the 1960's. A time when macrame, tie-dye, and
beading were even more popular in rural Iowa. She admits that all her life she’s been
doodling, painting, and doing other kinds of dabbling. This obsession with playing in paint and making stuff began when
she put her first crayon to paper and began embellishing church hymnals or decorating otherwise white walls in her farm home. Her
lifelong artistic passion led to a Fine Arts degree from Iowa State
University, where she won several awards for her artwork and learned a host of techniques for printmaking, drawing,
and painting. Upon completion of that degree, she began her own hand made block-printed clothing business in the early
1990’s. It was a blast! It’s been a fantastic ride ever since. For over 10 years, she’s been creating
illustrations for coloring posters and other children's products as well as greeting
cards and websites. Her artwork is distributed worldwide from her studio in Desert
Hills, Arizona. She resides in the heart of the Sonoran Desert
with her husband Greg. You can contact her at www.gretchenarts.com or Gretchen@gretchenarts.com.
Paul Edward Davis- Artist
As far
back as he can remember,
Eddie has always enjoyed
drawing
and painting. It was something he
could not put down, sort of like an
addiction. He sometimes jokingly
refers to his gift as a compulsive
disorder.
That is the distinction he
draws when he thinks
about what
a true artist is. He feels that artists
don't do it for the money, nor for
the acclaim, but because
they have to. He further enhanced
his skills by picking up various
books
on painting, taking design
classes at Milwaukee
Area
Technical College, and through many
years of creating portraits and
caricatures at local festivals and
block parties.
He loves painting and always looks
forward
to his next project.
He works with any medium
and
enjoys exploring what he can do
with the digital world. Eddie is
illustrating my next book! He
resides in Wisconson with his family.
You can contact him at
