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Kia Bell is a children's author and early childhood educator. She has taught children from infancy through age five, including in early intervention. The children she has worked with inspire the stories she writes and the lessons behind them. Her series, Max & Maggie's Family Values, introduces young children to kindness, respect, responsibility, and the everyday habits that help build good character.

Kia holds a B.S. in Early Childhood Education and Business from the City University of New York and is an Ed.M. candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she is a Saul Zaentz Early Education Fellow. Her work is grounded in the belief that the earliest years of a child's life are when the foundations of character begin to take root.