The Ultimate Purple What?

Joyce Gilmour
Joyce Gilmour is a third grade teacher at Brooklyn Elementary School in Brooklyn, Wisconsin. She was born and raised in Wisconsin, getting both her B.S. and M.S. degrees at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. She specialized in Educational Psychology with a focus on gifted and talented education. She has enjoyed over thirty years of teaching third graders. Joyce and her husband have raised five adopted children, who are all now enjoying their adult lives. Joyce also facilitates Love and Logic Parenting classes for her school district, and believes in helping everyone she works with to put forth the effort that it takes to build healthy self-esteem. It has always been a goal to help others “reach for the moon and the stars.” The Educator’s Resource Guide to accompany Elliot Stone and the Mystery of the Alien Mom is a way for her to reach out to others to do just that with their children and/or students.

L.P. Chase
L.P. Chase is a poet and children's author. Elliot Stone and the Mystery of the Alien Mom is the first in the Elliot Stone series, the second Elliot Stone and the Mystery of the Backyard Treasure was released by Rain Publishing in the fall of 2007. L.P. is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and enjoys speaking to children and parents at local schools. Chase is also a moderator for the Children's Book Forum in Brady Magazine. She authored I Kiss the Moon, a poetry collection. She has received many awards for individual poems, which have appeared in several anthologies, the International Library of Poetry and more recently Applecart Magazine. She is a member of the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets. Chase is presently doing coursework at Suffolk Community College with the ultimate goal of earning a Master's Degree in Social Work. She is married with three children, who inspired her writing, and resides with her family in Smithtown, New York.

Teamwork

When L.P. and Joyce met, they had one thing in common, and that was Elliot Stone and the Mystery of the Alien Mom. They soon found out that they shared more in common, and that was the belief in a higher level of thinking. They decided to work together in creating this resource guide as encouragement for others to teach children that they can go far beyond their knowledge level and realize they can be smart in many different ways. They hope that you will find this resource just that….an encouragement for others to teach children that they can chase their dreams and reach for the stars.

Please visit www.lpchasebooks.com for more information.