Nadine A. Block

Nadine A. Block has ceaselessly and successfully fought for children’s rights for three decades. She was a teacher, a school psychologist, and the founder and director of a nonprofit organization that fought to end school corporal punishment. Block previously published This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You: Children Share in Words and Pictures How Spanking Hurts and What to Do Instead (2011) and Breaking the Paddle: Ending School Corporal Punishment (2013). During her retirement, she privately published Our Family: Wisconsin Pioneers, Stories for My Grandchildren and other stories for her grandchildren, using personal travel photos and illustrations, including “Casey the Cat in Kathmandu” and “Corey the Camel in Timbuktu.”