I've also written raps on world history, math and reading strategies.
I've completed a play commissioned by the Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, and I'm starting on Volume 2 of Rap-Notes: Shakespeare's Greatest Hits. And I've written more than a half-dozen children's books. I'm really proud of them because I always try to leave kids with an important message while they enjoy characters that go on their own "hero's journey."
I started writing when I was in sixth grade. Since my name began with "Z," I was last seat, last row. Which put me far enough away from Mrs. Friedman to work on my sixteen-frame comic page, The Adventures of Cornball. That sixteenth frame always had to have a "cliff-hanger" ending so that my friends would want to read how Cornball was going "to get out of this one" in the next installment.
My whole family loves the arts. My wife, Ann, designed logos for magazines like Esquire and Newsweek and now makes the most beautiful pots I've ever seen. My daughter, Yaara, is a writer like her dad. She's also an English professor at Seattle Community College. She started writing at five years old and never stopped. My son, Ben is an industrial designer. He comes up with great ideas for how to improve products so they're either more user-friendly or more beautiful.
I hope you enjoy my writing. Take a look at the beginning of my children's books on this site. I've read the complete stories to my own first-grade students and they love them. I hope you will too.
Misterzee
I've completed a play commissioned by the Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, and I'm starting on Volume 2 of Rap-Notes: Shakespeare's Greatest Hits. And I've written more than a half-dozen children's books. I'm really proud of them because I always try to leave kids with an important message while they enjoy characters that go on their own "hero's journey."
I started writing when I was in sixth grade. Since my name began with "Z," I was last seat, last row. Which put me far enough away from Mrs. Friedman to work on my sixteen-frame comic page, The Adventures of Cornball. That sixteenth frame always had to have a "cliff-hanger" ending so that my friends would want to read how Cornball was going "to get out of this one" in the next installment.
My whole family loves the arts. My wife, Ann, designed logos for magazines like Esquire and Newsweek and now makes the most beautiful pots I've ever seen. My daughter, Yaara, is a writer like her dad. She's also an English professor at Seattle Community College. She started writing at five years old and never stopped. My son, Ben is an industrial designer. He comes up with great ideas for how to improve products so they're either more user-friendly or more beautiful.
I hope you enjoy my writing. Take a look at the beginning of my children's books on this site. I've read the complete stories to my own first-grade students and they love them. I hope you will too.
Misterzee