by Melissa La Cour (Illustrator), Melissa C. La Cour (Author)
Join Omelette Coy at Eggcellent Martial Arts Academy where he will be learning more than the kicks and punches he thinks his parents signed him up for. As a shy new white belt he will discover that the journey to becoming a black belt has a whole alphabet of lessons. Martial Arts training will be just the thing this chicken needs to break out of his shell
Author Biography
Melissa La Cour is an author/ illustrator born and raised in New Jersey. She earned a BFA in illustration and animation from Montclair State University after completing her Associates degree in graphic design at Sussex County Community College. She began karate at four years old and continues to train and teach to this day. Combining her love of cartoons and karate she wanted to take the lessons she learned and make them available to kids everywhere. With her first picture book "The Black Belt ABC's" she takes kids along on an alphabet journey so they too can learn the values she has taken away from her time at the dojo.
