Robin Preiss Glasser has had two successful careers, the first as a ballet dancer and the second as an award-winning children’s book illustrator. After an eleven year career as soloist with the Pennsylvania Ballet, Robin returned to school at age thirty, receiving her B.F.A. from Parsons The New School for Design. Among the noted authors and personalities for whom Robin has illustrated best-selling children’s books are Judith Viorst, radio star Garrison Keillor, poet Elizabeth Garton Scanlon, and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. Robin received an ALA Notable Book Award for You Can’t Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum with author Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman. She collaborated on three books with the former vice president’s wife, Lynne Cheney (America, A Patriotic Primer, A is for Abigail, and Our 50 States), which together sold more than one million copies. In 2006 Robin was paired with author Jane O’Connor for the now classic Fancy Nancy, which stayed on the New York Times Bestseller List for ninety-nine weeks and has been translated into seventeen languages, including Hungarian and Hebrew. More than twenty Fancy Nancy titles are now in print with over six million copies sold. The Fancy Nancy ™ brand includes more than thirty licenses for dolls, toys, accessories, bed linens, clothes, and more. Robin lives in Irvine, California, with husband, attorney Robert Berman, children Sasha and Benjamin, and dog Boo.

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