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Hi, I'm Mel

As a young child, Dad would read me picture books at bedtime and the stories stayed with me my entire life. First and foremost, Madeline, which I can still recite.

I hand-wrote my first children's book, "Bacteria Galore by Sunday at Four" when I was 23 years old. Twenty years later, Tel Aviv University published it, with the lovely illustrations of Tali Niv-Dolinsky. 

For many years, my writing career was on a back burner while I became a scientist, inventor, and later a jazz musician and a singer. I enjoyed each of these careers, but these days I am fully committed to my children's writing.

I keep busy:

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