Adam Ross started First Fantasy Books, and FirstFantasyBooks.com, to provide engaging reading material for beginning English readers and English Language Learners. These books are truly a labor of love, and a product of his training and years of experience as a Masters level educator. He believes, "The key to loving reading, is finding yourself in the stories," and so he's on a mission to bring more imaginative and inclusive reading for beginning English readers. Emyliane is an illustrator based in the Santa Cruz mountains. From a traditional art background with tutelage in the US and Scotland - Emy fluidly moves between graphite and watercolor to digital painting, depending on what best suits a piece. A passion for color, fantasy, and diverse representation, their work is woven (sometimes literally) with faces, flowers, and magic. After sitting at a desk all day, Emyliane can often be found chasing her cat around the house, brewing up fanciful tea concoctions, and ... still drawing, just this time for personal projects.