Heather Marie is an award winning children’s book author. She started a children’s picture book series “The Adventures of Pickle Juice and Patty Cakes” based off of her two french bull dog puppies Pickle Juice & Patty Cakes. She wrote this series to teach kids to always be kind, to never give up and to accept differences in others. She currently has two published books in the series, “Pickle Juice & Patty Cakes Ice Cream Adventure” and “Pickle Juice & Patty Cakes Space Adventure”. Heather loves being out in the community with her side kick Patty Cakes making appearances at local schools for author visits, book stores, RAM, donating books to local and overseas charities and being at several events in Duval and St.John’s County almost every weekend. She loves being able to provide interactive story times through out the community with different sensory and arts and craft activities that go along with her books to keep the kids engaged and help increase sensory and literacy development as well as reading comprehension. Her mission is to provide a memorable experience for kids while teaching kids the importance of being kind and accepting differences in others.