Dr. Carol Graham is a National Board Certified Reading and Language ArtsTeacher Specialist. She is an elementary teacher and principal who lives inCoeur d' Alene, Idaho. As principal and a teacher at Hometown ElementarySchool, her leadership and experience spirited Hometown Elementary Schoolto be recognized at the state and national levels. As a teacher, her students achieved acclaim as finalists in a National NASA Competition and received several National STEM awards. As principal, Hometown Elementary was selected as a National Green Ribbon School, National Title I School, West Virginia School of Excellence and a West Virginia Distinguished School during her tenure. Beautiful Echo Ranch, near Kalispell, Montana, provided many childhood and young adult experiences for Dr. Graham. She fondly remembers riding her registered quarter horse, "Whimper Duke," many miles throughout the open range herding cattle. Later, she attended Montana State University to attain her degree in teaching. As a teacher in Idaho, her interactions with the children and teachers of the state, as well as her wealth of experiences from the state of West Virginia, provide the setting and backdrop for many of Dr. Graham's stories, illustrations and poems.