American - Writer | 1966 -
Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.
Doreen Cronin
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I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
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I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!
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I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
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In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
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I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.
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I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.
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I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.
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Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone important to me that I could do something special is immeasurable.
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
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