Nadine A. Block

Nadine Block has ceaselessly and successfully fought for children's rights for more than three decades. She was a teacher, a school psychologist, and the founder and director of a non-profit organization that fought to end school corporal punishment. She led a group of 50 statewide organizations in getting a ban on school corporal punishment in OH in 2009. In her retirement, she continues to support ending corporal punishment of children through writing and personal contacts. She believes that children have the right all adults have to be free from physical harm.

Block has published three books, This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You: Children Share in Words and Pictures How Spanking Hurts and What To Do Instead (2011) and Breaking the Paddle: Ending School Corporal Punishment (2013). She privately published Our Family, Wisconsin Pioneers and many stories for her grandchildren using personal travel photos and illustrations, including " Casey the Cat in Kathmandu" and " Corey the Camel in Timbuktu."

Block's latest book is Remembering Rosie: Memories of a Wisconsin Farm Girl. Page Publishing Inc. 2020

Her website and blog is at www.nadineblock.com