JOYCE LAMBERT HAS BEEN published author for over thirty years. She began as a poet, but has since branched out into children's literature, publishing her first book, SLICK 'N SLIDE. Joyce lives on a farm with Jim, her husband of nearly fifty years, where they raised six children, assorted horses and many other animals. There the farm life, the beauty of the Indiana countryside, and the bordering Kankakee River, have been a constant inspiration for the stories she writes for her twenty one grandchildren.