Alan HilfikerAlan Hilfiker has three children and nine grandchildren. He has spent a lifetime creating all sorts of stories and poems. Early on, he was inspired by Watty Piper's The Little Engine That Could and Holling Clancy Holling's Paddle-to-the-Sea Later, by his English courses at University of Rochester. In sharing these stories, he hopes children will be inspired to read, to write, and to create. Read More Read Less