Tish Rabe graduated from the Ithaca College School of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in Applied Vocal Performance. With the help of her high school music teacher, Dave Conner,she got her first job in New York answering the phone in Joe Raposo’s (songwriter of “The Sesame Street Theme” and “Bein’ Green” among other hits!) Carnegie Hall studio. She soon became Music Production Assistant on Sesame Street and the original Electric Company and got her big break in show business when she sang back-up as a “Grouchette” on Oscar the Grouch’s one-of-a-kind tune, “Swamp Mushy Muddy.” (http://tishrabe.blogspot.com/2010/05/from-then-til-now-reaching-90th-book.html).

For the next few years, she sang on jingles and record albums and continued to work in television. In 1982, she traveled to China with Jim Henson’s Muppets to produce Big Bird in China, which won the Emmy for Best Children’s Special. Later that year, she became Senior Producer of a new science series for kids on PBS called 3-2-1 Contact. During the five seasons of the show, Ms. Rabe wrote scripts as well as lyrics for over 60 songs including “What Does Your Garbage Say?” “Electricity is the Power” and “People are Mammals Too”.

In 1991, she became Senior Producer for Children’s Media at Random House, creating home videos and book and audio packages for The Berenstain Bears, Dr. Seuss and Richard Scarry. She also produced The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, a Christmas special for HBO Family which starred John Lithgow and Crystal Gayle who sang two of Ms. Rabe’s songs on the show. When the special was spun-off into a series, she lead an international writing team as Head Writer for 52 episodes of The City Mouse and the Country Mouse Adventures!

Ms. Rabe has spent the last fifteen years writing over 90 children’s books and scripts for children’s television series including Clifford, Clifford’s Puppy Days and I Spy! In 1996 she became the author of a new line of non-fiction Cat in the Hat science books, The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library. A television series based on these books, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about That, airs daily on PBS Kids (http://pbskids.org/catinthehat/). She also wrote the popular Dr. Seuss book for parents-to-be Oh the Place’s You’ll Go to be read in Utero!

In 2005, she became Editorial Director and Music Producer for Soundprints, creating book and audio CD’s and writing songs for Disney, Sesame Street, the Smithsonian Institution and the African Wildlife Federation. She also performed as a singer/narrator for recordings for both Disney Princess and Bambi.

In 2009 she launched a series of inspirational books featuring her own original character The I Believe Bunny with Thomas Nelson, a world-wide leader in providing books with family values themes. (www.ibelievebunny.com)

She is a proud mom and step-mom and sings professionally in New York City cabarets. She also enjoys traveling to elementary schools doing Author Visits (http://www.childrensauthorsally.com/contact/) and sharing her love of reading and writing (and singing!) with the children she meets.