Children's author A.N. Stewart has been a storyteller since childhood. She grew up in Southeast Louisiana where music, stories, and folklore were what helped foster her imagination. The story, Bill Bailey, Please Come Home is the first installation in The Shotgun Shack Kitties, a series of books following a group of spirited kitties that live in a shotgun house in New Orleans with a girl named Eartha.A.N. Stewart combines playful storytelling with the vibrancy of New Orleans, with each book highlighting a feature of the lively region-jazz and other music, food, community. A.N. is her own inspiration for her stories, as she indeed lives in a shotgun house in New Orleans with too many cats.She believes a great book is one that evokes compassion and joy and reminds readers of the beauty around us, in a world that has enough sadness or stress. She hopes her own young readers come away from her stories excited about music, nature, and reading, and that it stays with them long after the book is closed.A.N. Stewart currently lives in New Orleans with ten cats including, of course, the one and only Bill Bailey.
