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2007 Texas Reading Club Manual
Jeanette Larson has worked in libraries for over thirty years and has written, edited, or been
involved in the production of over a dozen Texas Reading Club manuals. Jeanette recently “took
her pension” from Austin Public Library in order to pursue freelance projects. She served as the
youth services manager for Austin Public Library for over five years. Prior to that she was the
Director of the Texas State Library’s Library Development Division and the Manager of
Continuing Education and Consulting Services. Her frontline experience includes five years at
Anaheim Public Library in California, a year at Irving Public Library, and twelve years with
Mesquite Public Library. Jeanette is the author of Bringing Mysteries Alive for Children and
Young Adults, published by Linworth Publishing in 2004, and collaborated with illustrator
Adrienne Yorinks to produce A Quilt of States: Piecing Together America, published in 2005 by
National Geographic. Jeanette holds an MLS from the University of Southern California. She
and her husband, Jim, live in Austin with a multitude of dogs and cats. Jim is often recruited to
illustrate her work, while the dogs and cats primarily get in the way.
Sally Meyers
Sally Meyers has been the children's services coordinator for the Tom Green County Library
System in San Angelo for fifteen years. Previously she was teacher-director of La Escuelita
Preschool for nine years. Sally served on the Texas Reading Club advisory committee from
1994-1998 and has written the summer reading piggyback theme song every year since 1995.
She has served as a member of Children's Round Table's 2 X 2 Committee and served as chair of
student participation on the Texas Bluebonnet award committee. Sally is choir director at St.
Paul’s Presbyterian Church. Sally and her husband, Craig, are raising their two grandchildren,
Troy, 16 and Travis, 13 and have two granddaughters, Tyler, 6 and Riley, 4, in Senatobia
Mississippi.
Lucas Miller
Lucas Miller creates songs, stories and puppet plays that somehow manage to be both
outrageously funny and scientifically accurate (well, except for the talking poodle . . . and the
dancing cow . . . oh, and the singing porcupine). Lucas is the author of Fifi the Ferocious and the
upcoming children’s book Dr. DNA: Defender of Nature and Animals. All three of his CDs have
won parents’ choice awards and Lucas’ song “Metamorphosis (Tadpole Into a Frog)” received a
“Special Achievement in Songwriting” in the 2005 Great American Song contest. On stage,
Lucas is a bundle of kooky energy with a passion for getting kids excited about butterflies, toads,
sea anemones and everything wild. He has delighted over a million folks in his 14-year career as
a children’s author and artist. If you think “zoology” and “fun” don’t even belong in the same
sentence then you need to sample Lucas’ creativity at www.lucasmiller.net. Or, if you prefer,
you may call him at (800) 755-4415 and he’ll sing a few bars of “A Snake’s Not Slimy” for you
on the phone!
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