2. “When I was young I thought adults had silly rules. Like
that you had to cover your head up
in church, even if the “cover” was a
tissue. Or that you couldn’t wear
white shoes in December, even if they were your
fanciest ones and the exact color of snow. Or that some
people were less important…or less holy…or less
beautiful than other people. As far as I was concerned,
the only rule that really mattered was this one:
Kindness. I still think that.

3. *Joosse has published thirty-
eight books which have been
translated in twenty-eight
different languages. The
following slides highlight
examples of award winning
books.

4. *Born in Grafton, Wisconsin in 1949.
*Education: Attended University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point, 1966; University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A., 1970;
Attended University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1977–80.
*Interests: International travel, dogs, cooking and reading.
*Member of: Society of Children's Book Writers and
Illustrators, Council for Wisconsin Writers.
*Married to her husband Chuck, has three children and 2
dogs: Nugget and Poppy.

5. Barbara hasn’t always loved books! When she was
little, she attended a catholic grade school where
there were only books about saints. Lorita and
Eloise changed her perception of books. Lois was a
city girl who lived across the hall from her
grandmother. She had a shelf of books that she let
Barbara borrow to read. Elois was one the books.
She absolutely loved Elois because she was a city
girl like Lois, and naughty but nice like Barbara. It
was a combination of these two that encouraged
Barbara to read and later write her own stories.

6. "I like to write about real children," the Wisconsin-
based author wrote in Milwaukee magazine. "Children
do so many heroic things every day. When a child does
something that's very difficult for her to do, she is a
hero. I like to dramatize that 'every day heroism' in my
stories."

7. Papa Do You Love
Me?
“Top Book of the Season,”
New York Library Association
Best of 2005, Chicago
Libraries
Kirkus, starred review
Read-On, Wisconsin
ABC Best Books for Children,
2005
South Carolina Picture Book
Award 2007-8, Nominee
*Barbara M. Jossee’s children’s
picture book Papa, Do You Love Me?
is a delight. Like her children’s
picture book Mama, Do You Love
Me?, Papa, Do You Love Me?
features the watercolors of artist
Barbara Lavallee. Through a story
about a Maasai father and son in
Africa, Joosse focuses on a father’s
love for his son.