About the Author

Robin Kelley lives in Tony, WI with her husband, Brian. She was formally an art teacher and has taught all grades K-12 in the course of her 24-year career.  Her next life chapter is to focus on being an artist and an author in her dream home on a lake.

The idea for this book started with the phrase “Ostriches Eat Sausages” being stuck in her head. About nine years ago, thinking of how it would make a neat children’s book title, she asked her third grade art class in River Falls, WI for ideas for rhyming animals with food.

One Outreach illustration class and many, many years of finding time to draw while raising two little girls later, and the book was finished!

Besides art, Robin also loves lake life, reading, traveling and exercising in any form.
On November 3rd, 2018, Robin led Jayna’s, her youngest daughter, Girl Scout Troop on their first “Adopt-a-Highway” community service highway clean-up project in Chippewa Falls, WI. They were almost done when a drug-influenced driver of a pickup truck crossed the center line and ran into the troop, severely injuring a sister of a troop member, and killing Jayna, two other troop members, and a mother.

The loss of Jayna, who was only 9 years old, inspired Robin to finish this children’s book. The family was also inspired to create the Jayna Kelley Memorial Foundation to honor Jayna by helping children and their families in the community.

  Profits that come from the sale of this book benefits the Jayna Kelley Memorial Foundation. She has donated $13,000 so far and feels that helping a community, whether close to Chippewa Falls or beyond, is one way Robin can continue to heal her heart.

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