New Kid's View
Family lured Jerrianne and her husband to South Milwaukee in 2002 from Southern California where she worked as, first, a journalist, then, as a court information officer. She now stays busy with media-relations consulting, playing with her three grandchildren (part of the lure), writing, discovering her new environs, and hoping her garden will produce before the first fall frost.
It's A Classic!
South Milwaukee children's author Janet Halfmann is at it again -- she's winning awards! Her adorable book, Little Skink's Tail, published by Sylvan Dell,

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has been voted Sylvan Dell's classic by Sylvan Dell readers.
Here's the link to the Sylvan Dell blog post making the announcement: http://sylvandellpublishing.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/pick-a-classic-picture-book/
In case you haven't caught Janet's fun and entertaining presentations at the South Milwaukee Library, here she is a few years ago reading Little Skink's Tail and having attendees try on various tails Janet fashioned to simulate tails Little Skink tried on after he lost his.
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To learn more about Janet and her books, visit her website at www.janethalfmann.com


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