Our Big, Amazing Tree!!!

About the Book

Suzanne wrote the original limerick for this book—”There was an old owl in our tree...”—for her eighth-grade teacher at Ardsley Middle School in Westchester County, New York. She invented other tree dwellers over the years and finally asked her father, Walter K. Cohen, to illustrate the book.

Who can you imagine up in your Big, Amazing Tree?!

About the Author

Suzanne Cohen has a Masters Degree in Education, and an undergraduate degree in Theatre Arts and English Literature. Besides writing, Suzanne is a singer, songwriter, playwright, and actress. She has written and produced two musicals, Queen Esther of Persia and Eleanor (based on the life of Eleanor Roosevelt). Suzanne is a retired English teacher, who also worked extensively in social services. She now works at Betterbee, and is a beekeeper, a gardener, and a ski instructor. She has two sons, Taylor and Joshua Cohen-Peyton, and lives with her life partner, Dennis, and a menagerie of pets in the small, Upstate New York town of Greenwich. Walter K. Cohen, a graduate of Pratt Institute, had a successful advertising career with his partner Bernard Most (also a children’s author). He and his wife Doris retired to Schroon Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains, where he enjoyed boating, skiing, and time spent with his family.