About the author

Tom Serafini: Author/Illustrator, Ollie’s sidekick.

Tom Serafini writes and illustrates fun, imaginative stories about Ollie Bug, five legged adventure spider and his friends in a faraway place called Moonwater Meadow.    His stories encourage creativity and imagination in children and adults and fosters a love of reading, writing and dreaming.

Tom writes the kind of stories that kept him up all night reading instead of studying.  He is a story teller by nature, a smile merchant in the business of entertaining.

Ollie’s stories have a positive message about hope, happiness, inclusivity and friendship.  Tom’s  illustrations combine inks and watercolors to create definition and character in the foreground while dazzling the eye with sumptuous washes of texture and color in the back.

Ollie, who could be called Tom’s alter ego, is a lovable child who dreams of wild adventures and fantastical inventions.  Tom has been writing and illustrating Ollie’s life since the ancient time of 1987.

“I’m often asked what age group Ollie’s stories are suited for. Well, they are for all ages.  They are for kids who love to dream of big adventures and they are for adults, who no longer have time to get lost in another world, a gentle world of open meadows, tree houses, pizza-sea monsters and daring swashbuckling pirate-astronauts.  Ollie is for everyone who loves to dream or spend a day with their friends doing nothing more than flying paper airplanes.”

A Brooklyn native, he is a connoisseur of pizza, talks with a funny accent (how you doin?) and lives with his wife and sometimes co-author and a small crew of marauding cats.

He once tried to make a swimming pool in his parent’s bathroom by stopping the drains and opening the faucets.  It didn’t work out well.  He also tried hang gliding from a second story balcony using wings made from an umbrella.  That didn’t work out well either. 

For more about Tom Serafini and his work, please visit his site at TomSerafini.com.  He may even have pizza waiting for you.