Reg Down grew up in Canada, Namibia, South Africa and Ireland. He trained in eurythmy, an art of movement and gesture, in England and Germany. The father of three, he has been a eurythmist in Waldorf schools in Australia, Canada and the United States, as well as on the faculty at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California.He is the author of seventeen children's books, many of them arising out of his work with kindergarten and the younger grades, and two novels. He also has two professional titles: Leaving Room for the Angels, AWSNA Publications, an exploration of artistic pedagogy through the eyes of eurythmy, and Color and Gesture - the Inner Life of Color, Lightly Press.He currently lives in Sacramento, California, writing, publishing, storytelling, puppeteering and generally hanging around and twiddling his thumbs.