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 The
Benefactory is proud to be working with
an exciting group of very talented, award-winning
authors, illustrators, narrators, musicians
and designers.
 Authors
A number of our authors have won prestigious
awards, including Randy Houk: Randy, founder
of The Benefactory, has written a number
of books with The Benefactory, some of which
she has also illustrated: Bentley and Blueberry
(author, illustrator) Jasmine (author, illustrator)
Hope (author) Wolves in Yellowstone (author,
illustrator) Chessie, The Travelin' Man
(author) Healing Rico's Hawk (author.)
Randy is working on two new books, In Wheelwright
Park, Don’t Bite! Don’t Bark!
Boris: Lost and Found, due in 2001. She
lives in Pembroke, MA with her two dogs
and three cats. Randy's book Chessie The
Travelin' Man won the National Parenting
Publications honors Award in 1997
Illustrators
A number of our illustrators have
won prestigious awards, including:
1997 National Association of Parenting Publications
Honors Award and in 1993 John Burrough's
Outstanding Nature Book for Children Award.
Narrators
Emmy, Grammy and Peabody award-winning musician,
Tom Chapin narrates the Benefactory's series
of true stories, both on  the
Benefactory's audiocassettes and videotapes
and on The Benefactory's online storytellings.
Tom
and Michael Mark wrote the original theme
music heard on The Benefactory and on all storytelling
animatics. Tom is accompanied by Jon Cobert
on original music woven into each audiocassette
narration.
Additional
Credits
Gull Point Partners. of Pembroke
MA, produced and designed The Benefactory's
website.
Anita Soos Design, of Stony
Creek, CT, designed and produced many of
the images featured in the The Benefactory site,
including all Benefactory storybooks.
Sean Kernan Photography, of
Stony Creek, CT, took all product shots
for The Benefactory items featured on The Benefactory.
Alan Weiss Productions, of
Manhattan, NY, winner of 15 Emmy Awards,
produced the animatic storytellings for
the The Benefactory site. They also produced the
entire video for Chessie, The Travelin'
Man, as well as the live footage section
of the Wolves in Yellowstone video.
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