title: Kids: Photos to Brighten Your Day
author:  Tracy Sweeney 
description: Tracys enchanting portraits offer us a glimpse into the playful, curious and quiet moments of childhood. This luminous collection not only warms the heart but<br />also inspires the eye.<br />Sarah Wilkerson, author and CEO of Click & Company<br /><br />Tracys images truly capture the wonder and magic of childhood in a way few photographers have ever been able to achieve. Its just a joy to behold. Tracy has done something very special here.<br />Scott Kelby, award-winning author, editor and publisher of<br />Photoshop User magazine, co-host of photo talk-show The Grid
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  **Acknowledgments**
  
  
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  I would like to gratefully thank: Kay Cannon, Richard Dean, Eric Gurian, John
  Riggi, and Tracy Wigfield for their eyes and ears. Dave Miner for making me do
  this. Reagan Arthur for teaching me how to do this. Katie Miervaldis for her
  dedicated service and Latvian demeanor. Tom Ceraulo for his mad computer
  skills. Michael Donaghy for two years of Sundays.
  
  
  
  
  
  Jeff and Alice Richmond for their constant loving encouragement and their
  constant loving interruption, respectively.
  
  
  
  
  
  Thank you to Lorne Michaels, Marc Graboff, and NBC for allowing us to reprint
  material.
  
  
  **Contents**
  
  
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  Front Cover Image
  
  
  
  
  
  Welcome
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Dedication
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Introduction
  
  
  ### Origin Story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Growing Up and Liking It
  
  
  
  
  
  All Girls Must Be Everything
  
  
  
  
  
  Delaware County Summer Showtime!
  
  
  
  
  
  That’s Don 