Carol Gault’s Fabulous Alphabet Picture Book Starring Earth’s Amazing Reptiles Exhibited at the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books

The 7th San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books occurred last August, recording about 8,000 attendees who checked out a wide range of new publications. It was an exciting opportunity for authors who wanted to share their work using all sorts of creative ideas and assets.

One good example was Carol Ann Gault, author of the alphabet picture book on reptiles “Alligator to Zebra-tail” The book had its exhibit with support from ReadersMagnet, a self-publishing and book marketing company.

“Alligator to Zebra-tail” is a children’s alphabet book with each letter represented by a reptile and also accompanied with a rhyme teaching its most distinct features. In short, it’s a reading and science education book rolled into one!

Gault is a professional landscape and wildlife photographer whose passion for taking pictures started since was five. During the earlier parts of her life, she was dedicated to it as a hobby.

However, as soon as she had finished graduate school and got her master’s degree in mammal ecology, she was getting closer to improving her skills with more seriousness. Eventually, she had started joining workshops across Western United States and combining it with her science background. At some point, she had even taken classes from esteemed National Geographic photographer David Hiser.

And now, she has been hard at work exploring the natural world and turning her pieces into educational, creative pieces (such as children’s books). So, by exhibiting her recent publications at events like the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books, she hopes to find more audiences to share her love for photography and Earth’s many creatures.

Get a copy of Carol Gault’s “Alligator to Zebra-tail” on Amazon.

“Alligator to Zebra-tail”
Author: Carol Gault
Published date: 6/14/2022
Publisher: Aspen Light Imaging
Genre: Children’s Picture Book

Author Bio
At the ripe old age of five years old, with three cereal box tops, and 50 cents, Carol Ann Gault purchased her first camera. With the first roll of film, she learned how to hold the camera steady and relatively level. When that camera ceased to function, her parents let her take their old Kodak with a shutter that sounded like the horn of a Model T car and was off to Y camp taking pictures of friends and counselors. The Kodak Instamatic became her favorite tool in my teenage years and it wasn’t until her mid-twenties that she managed to buy a single lens reflex.

While she was in graduate school and working on a master’s degree, she worked part time in a needlework store and became a needlework designer. She achieved her master’s degree in mammal ecology and then had two children and learned about being a mammal first hand. The camera became a supplement to her career as an at-home biologist, a designer and a mom. Most of her picture taking was snapshots of children, flowers in the backyard and the occasional vacation trip. She had a book published Needlework Dragons and other Mythical Creatures with Van Nostrand Rheinhold. She took classes on graphic design and computer graphics and self-published several needlework instruction pamphlets.

As the perpetual student and moving to Aspen as a refugee from real life, she started taking my photography more seriously and attended classes with David Hiser, the faculty at Colorado Mountain College, and various workshops offered in the west. Using the biology, and design skills she picked up along the way, she is now a landscape and wildlife photographer. She has taught digital imaging and photography at the local Colorado Mountain College. Aspen Light Imaging is her company that produces note cards, magnets, laser prints and other gift related items from her photographs.

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