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| Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[more] |
| Mary Newell DePalma is the author and illustrator of four children’s books: "The Strange Egg," a whimsical tale of wonder, curiosity, and friendship; A Grand Old Tree, a simple and beautiful tale about life itself; The Nutcracker Doll, about a child’s role in the Boston Ballet Nutcracker; and "The Perfect Gift," an adv....[more] |
| Children's author Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in psychology in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of bus....[more] |
| Brian James was born in 1976 and grew up outside of Philadelphia. After attending NYU, he worked as a children's book editor in New York. He now lives in the Catskill region of the New York State where he is a full time writer. He has written several YA novels including Zombie Blondes, Pure Sunshine, and Thief (2009 AL....[more] |
| W. Lyon Martin has been an Eclectic Pagan since the mid 80s. Her initial training began with a Dianic Coven in New Haven, Connecticut. After moving to northern Connecticut with the birth of her daughter, she began Solitary practice.
In 2000, Lyon was hand-fasted to her wonderful husband, Thunderchilde, and moved hal....[more] |
| Everyone loves a good cry, and no one delivers heartwrenching stories better than Lurlene McDaniel.
But there’s more to her books than that. McDaniel has written numerous novels about kids who face life-threatening illnesses, who sometimes do not survive. These are powerful, inspirational stories about courage, love....[more] |
| I've been working in children's publishing for over 20 years, first as an
editor, then writer and, for the past 15 years, as an illustrator. It's my favorite role yet. I love being surrounded by kids -- watching them, listening to them, and especially drawing them. |
| Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, is most well-known for his fairy tales, which include ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Thumbelina’, and ‘The Ugly Duckling’. Andersen was born to poor parents, a washerwoman and a shoemaker, in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. Odense was the only town outside of Denmark’s capital to have a thea....[more] |
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