Jerome C. Harste is a well known author of children’s books, such as It Didn’t Frighten Me and My Icky Picky Sister (Willowisp Press). Harstes’s research has focused on what young children know prior to coming to school. Together with Carolyn Burke and Virginia Woodward, their book Language Stories & Literacy Lessons (Heinemann) received the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English by the National Council of Teachers of English in 1987.