Deborah Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and nutritionist as well as an author of picture books, young adult novels and books for adults.  She has been a regular contributor to The New York Times (including four years as the Sunday New York Times Magazine beauty columnist).

Blumenthal tailors her presentations to the age of the group. For K through 3 she might start with a reading of The Chocolate-Covered-Cookie-Tantrum, and then have students act out tantrums. An open discussion about expressing anger and frustration would follow, and then in class or as homework children would be asked to use paper and crayons to make their own tantrum books, drawing faces expressing different emotions. For older children, Blumenthal talks about the process of putting together a children’s book, the work of revising it, and the business of writing and getting published.