My name is Polly Wickstrom, and I live in Valparaiso, Indiana. My husband, Jim, and I have been married for 26 years. We are the proud parents of three young adult children (ages 19, 21, and 24) who fill our lives with joy and light. I grew up in the enviable (or pitiable depending on how you look at it!) position of being the only girl in a family of five brothers. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, our family later moved to Edina, Minnesota. Minnesota is one of the most beautiful places I've ever visited (or lived), and I have fond childhood memories of taking long bike rides around one of the many lakes within biking distance of our home, enjoying family picnics in beautiful green parks, and last but not least, being taken by my father to be fitted for my very first pair of ice-skates, a size 1. We left Minnesota in 1969 and moved to Arlington Heights, Illinois, which is a northwest suburb of Chicago. From 1978 to 1982, I attended Illinois State University, where I met my husband and received a B.S. in Elementary Education. After graduating from college, I received my first teaching position teaching third grade at Fisher Grade School in Fisher, Illinois, a small town just outside Champaign, Illinois. I loved teaching third grade, but I was engaged to be married and after the school year was over, I moved to Valparaiso, Indiana. In Indiana, I was fortunate enough to find a teaching position as a sixth grade language arts teacher in the very same district my soon-to-be husband taught in. I enjoyed teaching language arts for two years, but after our first child was born, I left teaching to become a stay-at-home mom. Shortly after our first child was born, I re-organized and extended a set of resources I had developed for my sixth grade language arts classes. That book, Quizzes for 220 Great Children's Books, was published in 1987. Several years later, my husband Jim and I co-authored a second book entitled More Quizzes for Great Children's Books. Both books were published by Libraries Unlimited. The first book is still on the market (after all these years!) but the second book is no longer in print. In 1998, I became interested in web design. A friend got me started in learning to code my own HTML. After that, I taught myself to use Photoshop and Flash. For a few years, I worked from home as a web designer. At that time, I maintained a website called Tomato Tree Designs, which offered shareware web templates and Flash tutorials. I was honored to have some of my work with Flash included on the resource CD for the book, Flash MX for Dummies by Gurdy Leete and Ellen Finkelstein. When our youngest daughter started high school, I returned to teaching for two more years. My first year back, I wrote and won a Reading Is Fundamental grant, which provided funding for three theme-based book giveaways at our school. The next year, I wrote and won a Foundation Grant, which was used to purchase two new SRA Reading Laboratories to be used in a new sixth grade reading program. In addition to a major in Elementary Education, I also have Endorsements in both Reading and Language Arts. This means that in addition to being licensed to teach grades 1-6, I am also licensed to teach reading, English, and language arts in grades 1-9. I launched AllQuizzes.Net on September 1, 2008, and I have been very pleased with its reception so far. I have a passion for children's literature, and I hope to one day write a young adult novel. Thank you for reading through this!