Mini, the Super Watermelon
About the Author

Dianna Cleveland

Dianna is a business-professional who uses writing as a creative outlet. Her professional career has been diverse, as she’s worked in business formation and product development, management, marketing and fund raising. Dianna is currently the owner of a successful publishing company. She also works with a non-profit organization that helps children to read and donates books to under-privileged classrooms and families. She is currently writing a novel, but took a new turn to write children’s stories specifically for Playbooks, Inc. She is the mother of three children and enjoys being active in her Christian church and community. Dianna holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from Colorado State University.

About the Teacher Editors & Translators

Nicole Swanson
4th Grade Teacher

Nicole Swanson was born in Southern California. She received a Bachelor of Art’s Degree in English Literature from St. Mary’s College of California. Directly after graduation, Nicole decided to pursue teaching. She obtained a Single Subject Teaching Credential and a Master’s in Teaching from Chapman University. Nicole taught English at the high school level for two years and then moved to the Big Island of Hawaii, where she taught 5th grade. After returning to California, Nicole accepted an assignment as a Writing Specialist at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo. She currently lives in Dana Point, California with her husband, where she keeps busy writing and editing.

Liliane Grenier

Liliane Grenier, a 23-year-old French-Canadian, is a self-taught artist who began drawing even before she could talk. She constantly works to improve her art by reading any art-related material she can get her hands on, and by voraciously studying the many masterpieces of her heroes of illustration, Alan Lee and J. W. Waterhouse. The work of these two artists serves as some of her greatest visual inspiration. Liliane's second passion in life is children, and she currently works as a daycare educator. She has completed various illustration projects, most of them child and teen oriented, but the majority of her work consists of medieval and Celtic-themed paintings, often inspired by imaginative stories such as "The Lord of the Rings," "Harry Potter," and the myth of King Arthur. Miss Grenier hopes to continue to increase her work as an illustrator in the years to come. A large body of her art can be viewed at the following online gallery: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/l/i/liliane/liliane.html