Creative Kitchen Crafts

Provides instructions for creating useful kitchen handicrafts , including a scratch pad, a scrubbie bag dispenser, and a recipe book.

Kathy Ross grew up in upstate New York in the 1950s. She credits her unusual and very creative elementary school education at Oswego State Teachers College coupled with a childhood that afforded her time to "be" for her endless ability to create. Kathy has written many children's songs, is a writer for the Highsmith Summer Reading Manual, has made dozens of television appearances, and has given workshops for both children and adults around the country. Kathy has published more then 60 books to date. She was honored to be the featured author of the month on the website of the Children's Book Council.

Nicole in den Bosch lives and works with her artist husband and child in a Civil-War-era general store and schoolhouse on the eastern shore of Maryland. She has illustrated numerous books and all kinds of cool stuff, such as greeting cards, magazine illustrations, and children's products.