Get to know Linda… Linda Zajac is an award-winning freelance science writer for children. She has been writing for magazines since 2002. She pursues captivating stories about scientists who use cutting edge technology to advance medicine, study wildlife, and protect the environment. As a writer of creative nonfiction, she writes science …
Get to know Judi… Judi Curtin was born in London and grew up in Cork. She has published three books for adults, and twelve for children. Several of her childrens books have been Irish bestsellers and one was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. They have been sold internationally, and translated …
Get to know Kathi… Kathi Appelt is the award-winning author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. Her picture book, MISS LADY BIRD’S WILDFLOWERS: HOW A FIRST LADY CHANGED AMERICA (HarperCollins, 2005) was given the “Growing Good Kids Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature.” In 2003 Appelt won …
Get to know Donna… Donna Gephart’s newest middle grade novel — Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen — is about a girl who will do anything to get on the TV quiz show, Jeopardy! and to visit her father, who left the family two years earlier. Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen has received …