Connie Phillips is a longtime resident and travel agent of Jacksonville Beach, Florida. She was born and raised in central New Jersey, so she is instilled with both Northern and Southern (sometimes conflicting) virtues. This is her first children's book, but she wanted to share the happy and fun way of healthy eating that she and her husband used with their two sons. She continues to sing these verses now to her French Bulldog who always comes running for his daily fruit at the start of one of them. Her sons, now grown men with these rhymes ingrained in their memories, will even admit to silently repeating them and chuckling whenever they grab a piece of fruit.