Poet Charles Ghigna sees things from the inside out. His poems ignite the imagination, tickle the funny bone, and warm the heart. His artist son, Chip Ghigna, draws upon that same inner whorl of illusive thoughts and ideas. Together they create a dreamland where visions become reality and reality becomes an illusion. Welcome to the magic of this first father and son collaboration, Illusions: Poetry & Art for the Young at Heart.

Charles Ghigna--Father Goose®--lives in a treehouse in the middle of Alabama. He is the author of more than one hundred books from Random House, Simon & Schuster, Time Inc., Disney, Hyperion, Scholastic, and other publishers. He has written more than five thousand poems for children and adults. His work appears in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines ranging from The New Yorker and Harper's to Highlights and Cricket. He served as poet-in-residence and chair of creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, and as a nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media.
Chip Ghigna lives in Birmingham, Alabama. His paintings appear in galleries, corporations, and private collections throughout the U.S. and France.