meet the flicks for kids editor

As a contributing writer for Entertainment Weekly, Lois Alter Mark wrote the magazine's popular Parents' Guide column for more than 10 years. She has written about movies and videos for Parenting magazine and reviewed children's CDs for Disney Online. Additionally, Lois has served as a judge for the prestigious Parents' Choice Awards, sponsored by the Parents' Choice Foundation--the nation's oldest not-for-profit evaluator of children's entertainment.

She is also the author of Wonderplay, a bestselling parent/child activity book she wrote in conjunction with the 92nd Street Y Parenting Center, and she is co-founder of StyleSubstanceSoul.com , a fast-growing website for women. Oprah Winfrey chose Lois as one of her 150 Ultimate Viewers--out of more than 100,000 applicants--and took Lois and her business partners on her once-in-a-lifetime Ultimate Australian Adventure.