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Alma Flor Ada

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]

Winky Cherry

I have been teaching children 5-11 for 35 years at Mount Tamalpais Schol in Mill Valley California and in Park and Recreation Department After School Programs. The books are a result of the curriculum I wrote and practiced while teaching. I plan to put the children's books on DVD with Palmer/Pletsch to have an interact....[more]

Pati Palmer

President of Palmer/Pletsch Publishing Pati Palmer has been teaching sewing for 39 years and was recently inducted into The American Sewing Guild's Sewers Hall of Fame. After being an educator for the Armo interfacing company and a department store buyer and home economist, she conducted seminars throughout North Am....[more]

Mike Rigsby

Haywired “A great first book for the budding inventor or engineer.”--Eric Wilhelm, cofounding partner of Squid Labs, CEO of Instructables Amazing Rubber Band Cars "Finally, an engineer writes a book for kids! Amazing Rubber Band Cars is much more than a thro....[more]

Michael Teitelbaum

Michael has written more than 200 children's books including middle grade novels, tie-in novelizations, and picture books based on movies, video games, and television shows such as Smallville, Avatar, Men in Black, X-Men and Spider-Man. Michael's packaging company, Town Brook Press, created and produced Spider-Man M....[more]

J. M. Barrie

Most famous for creating the beloved character of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie was born in Scotland in 1860. He was one of ten children and the death of his brother at age 14 would have a profound effect on Barrie’s life and when he would first get the idea for a character that remained a boy forever. Barrie himself would re....[more]

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the well-known novel The Secret Garden, was born on November 24th, 1849, in Manchester, England. While she and her family enjoyed prosperity for some time, their fortunes changed once Burnett’s father died, leaving her mother to care for five children by herself. After struggling fo....[more]

C. S. Lewis

Beatrix Potter

Nancy Baggett

Cooking, House & Home, Juvenile Nonfiction

She is one of America's most respected baking teachers. She is the author of a best-selling cookbook which was named the best dessert cookbook by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

Kate DiCamillo

Education, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

There has never been any doubt about Poe's enormous literary significance, but, with regard to his ultimate artistic merit, there has been considerable disagreement. To some he is little more than a successful charlatan, whose literary performances are only a virtuoso's display of stunning, but finally shallow, effects....[more]

Nathan Aaseng

Juvenile Nonfiction, Political Science

Nathan Aaseng grew up in Minnesota and worked as a microbiologist for four years before becoming a writer. He has written over ninety books for young readers, including biographies, and sports and science books.