Anna Jane Hays has had firsthand experience with seven preschoolers-her own two children and five grandchildren-as well as over 30 years experience in creating educational picture books, storybooks, and print activity books for preschoolers.She joined the Children's Television Workshop in 1970 and used her creativity and expertise to help develop publishing based on Sesame Street, the then-new, innovative, PBS preschool educational television series. She was first managing editor of the Sesame Street magazine start-up and developed original Sesame Street Book publishing in partnerships with Golden Press and Random House.After 29 years atSesame Street,she retired as Vice President/Editor in Chief of Book Publishing at Children's Television Workshop. Hays continues her work in children's publishing and has since published several storybooks and picture books with Random House, including ""Silly Sara,"" ""The Pup Speaks Up,"" and several other Step Into Reading and Sesame Workshop titles.Hays received her AA at Stephens College, Columbia, MO, and her BA in Honors English at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. She thenpursued a variety of post-graduate academic studies, including writers workshops at New York University and Columbia University.The author of numerous books for both US and European publishers,Hays continues her work in children's publishing as an editor, writer, and consultant. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sylvie Wickstromwas born in Casablanca in 1960. She lives with her partner, Barbara Lehman, in the Hudson Valley. Some of her heroes areMoomintroll, Frog and Toad, Babar and Winnie the Pooh.
?Provides simply the best introduction to European labor relations that I have seen....This is a clear, easily understood, factually and analytically accurate book that I would highly recommend for beginning student and advanced specialist alike....There is clarity and simplicity here for the beginning student of European labor relations and political economy. Yet there is also rich material here for the specialist, in concise summaries that sort through complex literatures to suggest questions and hypotheses for present and future testing.?-Industrial and Labor Relations Review