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“Charles Ghigna’s world is different than ours.
He lives in a hundred-year-old cottage in the middle of Alabama.
His writing room is upstairs in the attic. He calls it his “tree house.”
He spends most days looking out the window daydreaming up new ideas to write about.
When he’s not writing, he’s traveling to schools, libraries, and book fairs.
Kids affectionately call him Father Goose.”
—Bill Caton, Fighting Words

So Who is Father Goose?

Charles Ghigna - Father Goose® lives in a treehouse in the middle of Alabama.
He is a poet, children’s author, nationally syndicated feature writer, and the author
of more than 5000 poems and 250 books and anthologies for children and adults
ranging from the 1990 Pulitzer Prize nominee Returning to Earth to the popular children’s book
The Father Goose Treasury of Poetry for Children. His poems for adults have been published in
Harper’s, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Saturday Evening Post and The Wall Street Journal.
His poems for children are published in Highlights for Children, Cricket, Ranger Rick, Humpty Dumpty,
Jack and Jill, Spider, Ladybug, Babybug, Caterpillar, Children’s Digest and The School Magazine.
He served as poet-in-residence at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing
at Samford University, and has received fellowship grants and various awards and recognitions
from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation,
the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Library of Congress.
A popular speaker at schools, colleges, conferences, and libraries, Ghigna has spoken at the American
Library in Paris, the International schools of South America, and throughout the U.S. and overseas.

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