“When a six-year old boy thinks like a grown man, they call him a child prodigy. But what’s the best way to describe a grown man who thinks like a six-year old boy? That’s the problem my wife faces every time she has to introduce me.”
That is exactly how Alan Katz introduces him on his Web site and from reading through it, you’ll find that it is very true. On Saturday, April 10, Katz will be in the Delaware County Library’s Community Room at 11 a.m. in an event sponsored by Fundamentals Parent-Teacher Bookstore.
Katz is the author of many seriously silly books for children, including the best-selling Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs, illustrated by David Catrow.
From his Web site, Katz is:
As a print and television writer, I’ve majored in silliness for more than 30 years. During that time, I’ve written for a whole bunch of Emmy-nominated TV shows (five years worth of parody songs and other funny stuff for The Rosie O’Donnell Show), animated series like Taz-Mania, Disney’s Raw Toonage and Goof Troop, several editions of the Grammy Awards and Tony Awards, Kids Are People Too, a slew of Nickelodeon projects including Whoopi’s Littleburg, network specials, game shows, articles for publications including the New York Times and the New York Daily News, and I’ve created hundreds of comic books, trading cards, web videos, and other special projects for kids and their parents.
But my proudest achievement is the brilliance of Simone, Andrew, Nathan, and David, the children my wonderful wife Rose and I “co-authored.” They have taken me to new heights of silliness, and the kids and their mom are the reason I’m a happy man. We all live in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
It should be a wonderful day at the Delaware Community Library – located at 84 East Winter Street in downtown Delaware, Ohio. Fundamentals Parent-Teacher Bookstore is located at 25 West Winter Street in downtown Delaware.
