Come meet the people
who bring you my
adventures in my books
and CDs!
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Maryl Barker - the author
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Author me executive producer Maryl Barker has been writing books for over twenty years. She co-founded and helped build a successful international production and training company specializing in emergency medical training. GRACIE’S GREAT ADVENTURES is her first series of children’s books and CDs. The series is based on the real and imaginary adventures of Maryl’s Lab/Shar-pei mix, Gracie. Maryl conceives the ideas for each book and writes the stories. She works directly with artist, musician, and voice talent to produce the stories. She enjoys the challenge of incorporating humor and music with educational information to entertain and teach young children.
Maryl says, “Gracie loves children and they love her. It seemed a natural way to share that love by creating these book and CD programs."
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Amirah Said - the “Voice” of Gracie
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Twelve-year-old, Amirah Said, the “voice” of Gracie in GRACIE’S GREAT ADVENTURES, began her performing life at the age of three. Singing, dancing, drama, and story telling are her passions. She has performed locally in a number of school and community productions. Amirah played a leading part in Michael Mish’s “The Magic Stone". She has also performed in several video productions. Amirah played Diamond Princess for a series of four videos, soon to be filmed, based on the “Jewel Kingdom” books. Amirah enjoys the challenge of creating the voice of Gracie and brings a sense of excitement and fun into Gracie’s adventures. |
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D. Brent Burkett - Illustrator
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Artist Brent Burkett is best known for his oil landscapes of the Willamette Valley in Oregon. He has been painting all of his life. For the past ten years he has been creating illustrations for magazines and imaginative backgrounds for computer games.
GRACIE’S GREAT ADVENTURES is the first series of children’s books he has illustrated. Brent was chosen as the artist because of his unique ability to capture Gracie’s unusual look and bring to life in vivid color her many adventures.
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Michael Mish - Music
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Singer, composer, and musician Michael Mish has been involved in children’s entertainment for the past twenty-five years. In 1990 his television special “A Kid's Eye View of the Environment” won an Emmy Award. He has produced eight audiocassettes for children with such titles as “Sleepy Train”, “We Love the Animals” and “Aesop’s Fables”.
Michael was chosen to produce the audio portion of GRACIE’S GREAT ADVENTURES due to his vast experience directing children, and composing and performing music. Michael does voice-overs for animated characters. In GRACIE’S GREAT ADVENTURES, he performs the voice of Arnold in Volume 1, and five animal characters in Volume 2. His carefully placed sound effects, music cues, and songs bring Gracie’s stories to life.
In Volume 3 he provides voiceovers for a wide variety of characters including gophers, mice, trolls and garden statues.
Visit Michael's website: Michael Mish’s Mish Mash Music
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