If You Were a Parrot

Readers can join parrots and children as they climb all around the house, over furniture and up the curtains with four-toed parrot feet, then chew wooden spoons and popsicle sticks with the hooked parrot beaks, and then squawk, talk, preen, and finally snuggle down for the night.

Katherine Rawson was inspired to write this book by watching her own pet parrot, Shadow, a small green parrot with a big personality. When she is not playing with parrots, reading or writing about them, she teaches English as a Second Language at a community college and works as a freelance writer. She is a former elementary school teacher. Katherine lives in Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC.Sherry Rogers (illustrator) spent twelve years as a corporate graphic designer and artist before leaving it “all behind” for the freelance world. Sherry has developed quite a unique style of painting digitally on her computer. Just like a “traditional artist,” Sherry sketches by hand. When happy with the composition, she scans it into the computer. Just as she would use a “normal” paint brush, she paints her illustrations stroke for stroke on her computer in her program of choice, Photoshop. She laughs that the paint clean up is much easier than it used to be! She is currently working on her second book for Sylvan Dell, Burro’s Tortillas. Sherry lives with her husband and two children in Northern California.