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Anne Toole grew up in Williston, South Carolina. She is a graduate of Anderson Jr. College in Anderson, South Carolina. She is also a graduate of the University of Georgia. Ms. Toole taught first grade for thirty years in Augusta,Georgia. She has always enjoyed reading and writing poetry. As a child, she loved to listen to nursery rhymes and stories written in rhyme. When she became a teacher, she used nursery rhymes and simple poems in her class to enhance the regular Language Arts curriculum. After retiring, Ms. Toole worked part-time for three years as an ESOL teacher and also began writing stories about children and animals. Most of the stories are written in verse. Ms. Toole is an avid traveler and has traveled extensively in the United States, Canada and Europe. She has also traveled in Northern Africa and the Middle East. She presently resides in Columbia, South Carolina. Ms, Toole is also the author of The Bird That Didn’t Want To Be A Bird, The Frog That Lost His Croak, Lily Pearl, Shy Ty, Fat Maxine, Stan, The Little  Turtle, A Girl Named Earle, The Crow and the Big Oak Tree, The Cat That Was Nothing But Trouble and Mean Mike.