Laura Seeman has a Master's Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied piano with Dora Zaslavsky and Harold Bauer. She has also studied at the Art Students' League, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College. In the course of adapting to English "The Educated Cat" from the Yiddish (by Nochum Yood), "Quartet" from the Russian (by Krilov), and "The Wolf and the Stork" (from French, by La Fontaine), Ms. Seeman became enamored of fables. She began to write her own poetry involving all animals and their conversations, adding illustrations.