Steven Bialostok is an elementary teacher and reading specialist who has worked in public and private schools since 1975. He is currently a reading/language arts specialist for a large Sacramento-area school district and presents workshops on emerging literacy to parents and teachers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Steve conceived and wrote this book with the encouragement of his students’ parents—a monthly question-and-answer newsletter to them was so enthusiastically received, it was clear that the information needed to be shared with parents everywhere.