Michele Gajdzis crafts stories that sparkle with wonder and wisdom, pairing evocative prose with illustrations kids can’t stop tracing with their fingertips. A lifelong champion of kindness, she draws on her experience as a teacher, mentor, and mom to weave tales that build confidence sentence by sentence. Michele believes books should be felt as much as read, so each turn of the page offers a moment of discovery or a giggle of delight. Whether she’s visiting schools, leading story-time sing-alongs, or jotting notes in her garden, her mission remains the same: help children find their feathers and fly. Little readers leave her stories taller, braver, and bursting with ideas of their own.