by Jaye Andras Caffrey (Author), Lynne Adamson (Illustrator)
A lively, enchanting story that wonderfully captures the daily ups and downs of being a child with attention deficit disorder through the adventures of Paige, a bright young girl whose inability to stay focused threatens to spoil her best efforts to win a school contest.
Author Biography
Jaye Andras Caffrey: Jaye Andras Caffrey is a Louisiana tax lawyer, online columnist for MDNews, poet, mother, and writer. In February 2006, New Orleans City Business recognized her as a 'Woman of the Year.' She is presently completing a master's degree in fine arts with emphasis in creative fiction at the University of New Orleans, Louisiana, where she lives. Despite her achievements, her childhood was saddened by an undiagnosed attention deficit disorder. A voracious reader and incessant daydreamer as a child, she often felt lonely and confused. Since her diagnosis at the age of thirty-one, she has found new ways to deal with the distractibility, disorganization, and loneliness once so evident in her life.
Lynne Adamson: Lynne Adamson has worked in the graphics field including television graphics, advertising, and publishing all of her adult life. A forty-year resident of Las Vegas, NV, Lynne worked as Art Director for TV8 and TV3 in Las Vegas, as well as Art Director for several Las Vegas advertising agencies. She was Advertising Creative Director for the Greenspun Media Group, that publishes the alternative paper Las Vegas Weekly, InBusiness Las Vegas, and several magazine publications. Lynne also spent two years as a Graphic Specialist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.