If it's creative, Roy W. P. Reed has tried it. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen's University, painting, sculpture, ceramics, welding, needlecrafts, sand sculpting, and pumpkin carving are just a handful of the artistic challenges he's taken on. Whatever he learns, he teaches to his primary school students (not the welding) and members of the local community. You can also see him presenting at education conferences, sharing innovative, research-based techniques and strategies for teaching math and art to young children.Roy is the creator of three books to date: "Dot to Dot to Dot: 88 Advanced Dot to Dot Puzzles with Extra Dots," a fun and challenging way to learn and practice skip-counting and repeated addition "Painting with Words," where amazing pixel art is revealed as each hidden themed word is found and colored in."Letter Search," is a spin-off from Painting with Words, where younger puzzles find hidden letters to reveal pixel-art creations.He is also co-creator of "ABIT Stitches: 30 Snarcastic Stitches for You to Stab," a much less school-appropriate collection of irreverent cross-stitch patterns featuring quips from his sister and fellow author, Tara K. Reed. With those projects under his belt, he's working through the third draft of a paranormal YA novel and teaching himself Welsh, Turkish, and Mandarin (if he's not distracted by the new loom in his garage).Roy lives with his wife of 27 years in north-eastern Ontario, surrounded by rocks and trees and water.Read more about this authorRead less about this author