Karen Rostoker-Gruber is an award-winning children’s book author. Her books include Food Fright ( Price Stern Sloan), Rooster Can’t Cock-a-Doodle-Doo (Dial Books for Young Readers), Bandit (Marshall Cavendish), Bandit’s Surprise (Marshall Cavendish—due out in 2010), and Raisin Trouble (due out from Marshall Cavendish in 2011).  Some of her books have been nominated for the Missouri Show Me Award, were IRA-CBC Children’s Choices, listed in the Bureau of Education and Research’s Best of the Year list, included in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, and on several state reading lists.  She is also a published humorist. Her humor books include The Unofficial College Survival Guide (Great Quotations), Remote Controls Are Better Than Women Because. . . (Longstreet Press), Telephones Are Better Than Men Because. . . (Longstreet Press), and If Men Had Babies. . .(CCC Publications, LLC). She was a guest on the Ricki Lake Show and has been promoting her books on over 62 radio shows around the country.