He began his career as an advertising art director after studying fine art and graphic design at the University of Nebraska. He’s illustrated several Curious George books, as well as The Big Book of Superheroes for Gibbs Smith. From the creators of BabyLit: V Is for Vittles: A Wild West Primer is part of a unique new series that opens a window on history while teaching toddlers the ABCs. Greg Paprocki works full-time as an illustrator and book designer. Different eras of history―including the nineteenth-century American West, medieval Europe, and Victorian England―are brought to life by Greg Paprocki’s fun and enticing illustrations in this new series of board books for brilliant babies. All of these things and more are brought to life through artist Greg Paprocki’s vintage-inspired illustrations.įrom the creators of BabyLit®: V Is for Vittles: A Wild West Primer is part of a unique new series that opens a window on history while teaching toddlers the ABCs. This unique era of America’s nineteenth-century history featured buckskin-clad buckaroos, dastardly desperados, smarmy snake-oil peddlers, and the inevitable arrival of the cavalry―always just in the nick of time. She has taken hundreds of pictures of clouds and belongs to the Cloud Appreciation Society.A great way to introduce your brilliant babies to the ABCs while teaching them about everyday life in the rip-roarin’ and rambunctious Wild West. Kate plants a little garden on her balcony each summer, well out of reach of the deer. Her favorite authors are Terry Pratchett, Diana Wynne Jones, and poet Billy Collins. Kate is a great believer in revision, fairy tales, Christmas songs, and chocolate, not necessarily in that order. She has written poetry about the ocean, mindfulness, and monster kids, as well as picture books ranging from fairy tale retellings to a kid who takes on the Tooth Fairy and middle grade fantasy books that play with fairy tale tropes. Kate’s poetry collection Water Sings Blue won the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award in 2012. She is a lifelong bookworm and wrote her first poems in grade school, along with a Nancy Drew knock-off and short plays starring herself. Kate has taught every grade from kindergarten to college. She currently teaches college English classes and is studying for a master’s degree to be a Reading Specialist.

Kate Coombs writes poetry, middle grade fiction, and picture books for children.

V Is for Vittles by Greg Paprocki