Cathy Camper, born on January 31st, in Madison, Wisconsin, is creatively inventive and inventively creative. Her first book for children is Bugs Before Time: Prehistoric Insects and Their Relatives. She has published articles in magazines such as Cricket, Giant Robot, and Wired, and she co-edits the magazine Sugar Needle, which is all about candy. Her seed art is well-known, often taking blue ribbons at the Minnesota State Fair. "Draw Tippy" (at left) is just one example of her varied subjects, and was used as cover art for the Twin Cities Reader (click here to see more). Another of Cathy's interests is creating tiny robots out of found objects. Cathy describes walking down Lake Street in Minneapolis and thinking, "there's all this junk...screws, pieces of plastic, wood, caps from juice bottles, etc. that no one wants, so I wanted to see if I could turn it into something people would want. The robots had some pretty distinct personalities. One was in the Foot in the Door Show 2000 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts." Cathy has been working on her website (click here), making changes and including study guides, bug facts, links to prehistoric bug websites and more! A reference librarian at the Minneapolis Public Library, Cathy is currently writing fiction and has a YA novel in the works.