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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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Below are a few of his other books for children.

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Strange, Unusual, Gross & Cool Animals
A Carnival of Cats  A Parade of Puppies
Adeline Porcupine    Bobby Bear    Cuddle Bunny    Lucy Goose
Hail to Spring    Sunshine Brightens Springtime    A Windy Day in Spring    Raindrops Fall All Around
The Alphabet Parade    Numbers at the Park    Shapes Are Everywhere!    The Wonders of the Color Wheel
My Little Planet - Little Seeds    My Little Planet - Pick Up The Park    My Little Planet - Recycling Is Fun    My Little Planet - We Need Water
I See Fall   I See Winter   I See Spring   I See Summer  
Animal Tracks by Charles Ghigna    Animal Trunk by Charles Ghigna    Score! 50 Poems to Motivate and Inspire by Charles Ghigna    The Magic Behind the Screen
One Hundred Shoes by Charles Ghigna    Mice Are Nice by Charles Ghigna    Oh My, Pumpkin Pie! by Charles Ghigna    Snow Wonder by Charles Ghigna
Barn Storm    See The Yak Yak by Charles Ghigna    If You Were My Valentine by Charles Ghigna    The Day I Spent The Night In The Shelby County Jail by Charles Ghigna
Halloween Night by Charles Ghigna    Christmas is Coming by Charles Ghigna    Tickle Day by Charles Ghigna    Riddle Rhymes by Charles Ghigna
Love Poems by Charles Ghigna    A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys by Charles Ghigna    The Best Of Snickers by Charles Ghigna    Plastic Soup: Dream Poems by Charles Ghigna
Good Cats  by Charles Ghigna  Bad Cats by Charles Ghigna    Good Dogs by Charles Ghigna   Bad Dogs by Charles Ghigna    Speaking In Tongues by Charles Ghigna    Haiku The Travelers of Eternity by Charles Ghigna