Wanda Obermeier

"Mama Bird Papa Bird" Mom's Choice GOLD Award Winner and IBPA Silver Benjamin Franklin Award winner.

Adnaw Publishing was licensed with ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and several music titles were added to a growing number of songs published by singer/songwriter/author Wanda Obermeier. Many years were spent promoting bands and solo artists in venues throughout central Wisconsin, learning the business of booking, marketing and establishing a network of like-minded people who traveled across the United States selling their artistry in music, books, TV and film. (In case you're wondering, Adnaw is Wanda spelled backwards.)

Writing was always a natural flow, whether it was titles in a hook book, or a fully scored out song, Wanda was always writing something. Her music catalog has more than 300 songs, and her short stories and mini-novellas are yet to be published.

In 2006, she penned her first children's book, Mama Bird Papa Bird, and like an egg that is incubated, her ideas just sat around, until one day in the year 2012 she was introduced to an artist who always dreamed of illustrating a children's book. Thus began the collaboration of ideas to create a story board that grew into a full-color children's book.

The illustrator, Faith Thomas is a wife, mother and business owner, who has the creative genius of Walt Disney. Rather than saying that it was a coincidence that brought author and illustrator together, it was a planned incident by the Creator of life itself. Truly, another miracle happened when these two women started to collaborate: Mama Bird Papa Bird seemed to come alive, almost like an animation on 14 spreads; like a classic tale, the story begins "Once upon a time...."

The author was born in Milwaukee, 1962, whose parents Kenneth and Pauline Vernon raised fourteen children. In 1980 she graduated from Messmer Catholic High School and in 1984 she received a Bachelors degree in Spanish and English as a Second Language from UW-Stevens Point. In 1996, earned a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership, Marian University, Fond du Lac, WI. She has twenty years of experience in teaching and administration. She also worked ten years as the State Coordinator for Nacel Cultural Exchanges, headquartered in Tours, France, placing over 3,000 European students throughout the state of Wisconsin with host families. Prior to publishing her book, Wanda spent one year translating English to Spanish at Northcentral Technical Institute for the International SEED Program, commending 21 of her students at graduation in 2014. Her hobbies include traveling, playing piano, singing, sewing and crochet.

The author is married since 1982, and has one son, daughter-in-law and grand daughter.