About the Author

Barbara Alt hails from Butte, Montana, and worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Montana, Idaho, Washington D.C. and eventually Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she retired after 42 years, and continues to live with her husband, Tom.
While she did much technical writing during her administrative and financial management career, she never dreamed of writing a book. But she had a creative side as well. As an International Folk Dancer in the 9-day Festival of Nations while living in Red Lodge, Montana, she choreographed some of the Irish and Scottish dances.
So, when a balloon from her retirement party took on a life of its own in the weeks following, and the story idea for her first children's book, ROSE, was borne, the door was opened for a new venture.
 

Barb didn't do anything about it right away; just tucked the idea away and kept the balloon as a reminder to write the story. The next year and a half was spent preparing a number of scrapbooks commemorating all kinds of themes from her life, so that creative side kicked back in. Then, after being shut down for a few months during the pandemic, the story was written and illustrated, and her first book has become a reality! Several ideas evolved during that process for two more books to follow Rose on her adventures flying across the countryside, and within the next couple months LILY and VIOLET were written. LILY is about a new friend Rose meets on a lily pad and the two friends fly around discovering all kinds of fun things, including Barbie and Tommy (characters from ROSE) searching for them. VIOLET takes Rose and Lily on yet another adventure discovering rainbows and all the different things one might find at the end (including their new friend, Violet, who they met at the end of the first rainbow.) A fourth, unrelated story line, came to mind after many of her childhood memories were revived during scrapbooking as well. 

Stay tuned for Dreamland!