Michele Hauser is the author of THE CRYSTAL PALACE: RESCUE OF THE BABY FAIRY PRINCE and THE CRYSTAL PALACE II: REBELLION IN FAIRYLAND. She collaborated with her nine-year-old granddaughter Karina Nance, who illustrated both books. These are the first of a planned series. The books are available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

Michele was a teacher for 30 years, in kindergarten through eighth grade, reading thousands of books to children over the years. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Education (with emphasis on Reading and Writing), is a UCLA Writing Project Fellow, a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and a member of California Readers, an organization that strives to connect children with authors through classroom presentations.

As a child, Michele received a letter from her tooth fairy, Angela, explaining that she lived in the knothole in the tree in the back yard. Thus began her intrigue with fairy folk. The tooth fairy Angela is the main fairy in the Crystal Palace series.

Michele conducts interactive creative writing/illustrating workshops for elementary classrooms and has created discussion questions, activity leaflets, readers' theater scripts, and coloring pages to go along with the books. These are available to download from michelehauserstories.com.

Michele lives with her husband, Steve, in California and Illinois.