Charles Ghigna - FatherGoose® 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 one hundred books 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 books have been published by Disney,
Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and others. 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 appear in Highlights for Children, Cricket, Ranger Rick, Humpty Dumpty,
Jack and Jill, Spider, Ladybug, Babybug, Caterpillar, Children’s Digest and The School Magazine.
Ghigna 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 American International Schools in the Americas in South America and Alaska,
and at other events throughout the U.S. and overseas.
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