Barbara Walz is a retired English and ENL (English as a New Language) teacher from NY. She was raised in Jersey City and Wayne, New Jersey. She attended Pace University in Pleasantville, NY, St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA, and Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. She has three sons and five grandchildren. Her hobbies include water aerobics, chair yoga, walking, reading and writing. Her love of children and her enthusiasm to increase a child’s rhyming vocabulary, inspired her to write children’s books. She currently resides in The Villages, FL.