Wayland Patchh 8/11/12: Award-Winning Illustrator Aims to 'Captivate' Children's Imaginations. Shennen Bersani lives in Wayland where she visits Starbucks and pays taxes and takes her kids to school. But Bersani also lives in another world – a world of imagination and color and creation. And in that particular world, Bersani is the queen.

Bersani is an award-winning children’s book illustrator who lifts life and story out of text and splashes them across glossy pages using her colored pencils and computer.

And she’s good at it. So good, in fact, that her most recent book for Sylvan Dell Publishing, Home in the Cave authored by Janet Halfmann, was recently recognized with a gold Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award in the "growing up" category.