Get to know Jo… I live in Vermont with my husband and son. I’m a freelance writer, and I work on my fiction whenever I can find the time. And I read. I try to read at least one novel a week. If you want to be a writer, I suggest …
Get to know Peg… Peg Kehret’s middle-grade books have won fifty state young reader awards. She has won the PEN Center West Award in Children’s Literature, the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and the Henry Bergh Award from the ASPCA. Abduction was nominated for an …
Get to know Tammi… I spent most of my first eighteen years on a farm outside the small town of Victoria, Kansas (population: 1,208). My roles included gathering the eggs when the city cousins visited and wanted to engage in novelty farm-like activities, chasing pigs back to their respective pens when …
Get to know April… April Henry was born in 1959, in Portland, Oregon. After living in several states, her parents moved to Medford, Oregon, when she was five. She lived there until she graduated from Medford High School. A graduate of Oregon State University in Corvallis, she also studied abroad at …
Get to know Pam… Pam Calvert has been writing books and stories for children for over ten years. She likes to write fairy-tales, math adventures, middle grade novels, and multicultural stories–all with a humorous twist. She has five picture books — three with Charlesbridge Publishing and two with Marshall Cavendish. The first one entitled, Multiplying Menace: …