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About Michael MarkTom Chapin

Tom Chapin has entertained amused and enlightened audiences of all ages for more than forty years and through twenty-seven CDs eight Grammy nominations three Grammy awards and thousands of live performances. A pioneer in the field of childrens music he is also a respected singer-songwriter and a strong advocate for the arts in education. Tom lives in Piermont New York. Find out more at TomChapin.com.Michael Mark is a musician composer and actor whose accomplishments include a Drama Desk Award as a Featured Actor in the Broadway Musical I Love My Wife and the composition to the theme song for the long-running TV show Entertainment Tonight. For more than thirty years Michael has written toured and performed with Tom Chapin sharing in Grammy nominations for Toms albums of family music. He lives with his wife Mary a reading specialist in New York. Their two children Noah and Ronen are out in the world having successful creative lives.Chuck Groenink is the illustrator of The Backwards Birthday Party and a few other books. Originally from the Netherlands he now lives with his wife and cats in Valatie New York. When not drawing pictures for books he likes to read bake bread or go hiking and he wishes he could play the banjo. Visit him online at ChuckGroenink.com.