The Messy RoomBy: Vicky M. Van Dan-PletschThe Messy Room tells the story of a family with children who have very messy rooms. The rooms are so messy that it is trickling down the steps! While children of all ages will have fun with the rhymes throughout the story, they are also learning a very important message: a cleaned room makes more time for play.About the AuthorVicky M. Van Dan-Pletsch has taught music in the public schools for thirty-seven years, retiring in June 2017. She currently teaches private music lessons to students of all ages, plays the clarinet in the Bloomington-Normal Community Band, is a member of the Clarinet Choir, and is a church pianist and organist. She belongs to and is a member of the NAfME, TRS, IRTA, AARP, McLean County Farm Bureau, and has been active with the Special Olympics, Relay for Life, and Habitat for Humanity. Her hobbies include music, baking, cooking, crafting, sewing, landscaping, walking, writing, and she is working on her second-degree black belt in Taekwondo. She collects music of all genres, music boxes, snowmen, spoons from around the world, Green Bay Packers paraphernalia, and has a sweet tooth for dark chocolate. Pletsch has been married to her husband Dan for over thirty-nine years. She has two sons: Justin, who is married to Emily, and Jared. Justin and Emily have given her two granddaughters, Mary-Margaret and Rachel.