Meet the Author
Mary Culleton Dunn was born and raised in Ireland, the oldest girl in a family of thirteen. Her parents imbued them all with a love of prose and poetry. Caring for her siblings, and later for her own children, she has always enjoyed sharing stories, poems, and rhyming games. With children grown and gone, and after a few years in the corporate world and as a teaching assistant, she became a nanny or caretaker for countless families over the next twenty years. Along her life’s journey through different countries, cities, and towns, Mary found that young learners always had a common denominator: an engaged and positive response to poetry. Now, after years of sharing the works of others, Mary is hoping this collection, Magical Moments, will entertain, comfort, and inspire children wherever they may be.
Natalia Logvanova was born in the village of Zarechnoye, Ukraine. Natalia’s father worked as a math teacher and was a self-taught artist. As a child, she loved to draw and studied fine art with other children. After graduating from high school, Natalia went to the University of Manuilsky in Rivne, Ukraine. She graduated from the faculty of fine arts and design basics. Today, Natalia lives and works in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She has worked as an Illustrator for about twenty years, illustrating more than fifty books for publishers in the United States, England, Jordan, Australia, South Korea, Poland, and Belarus. Natalia specializes in children’s illustration; she draws watercolors and digital graphics.