Writer for Children

selected titles

Riding to Washington (Sleeping Bear Press, 2008)

Wanda Gág: Storybook Artist (Borealis Books, 2005)

I Wonder As I Wander (Eerdmans, 2003)

Chig and the Second Spread (Delacorte/Yearling, 2003)

Get Dressed! (Carolrhoda Books, 2002)

Johnny Appleseed (Carolrhoda Books, 2001)

Levi Coffin: President of the Underground Railroad (Carolrhoda Books, 2001)

Freelance Editor, Proofreader & Translator

Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota (2008, forthcoming) freelance editing for Minnesota Historical Society Press

Battles & Weapons (2007) freelance editing for Two-Can Publishing, Minnetonka, MN

Meet the Woolly Mammoth (Les dessous du mammouth) translation from French for Two-Can Publishing

Fish & Wildlife Today freelance copyediting and proofreading for Minnesota DNR webzine

Visiting author/teacher/lecturer

Click here for information on upcoming visits, book signings, and classes for children and adults

Brief Autobiography

I’m the author of more than two dozen books for young readers, mainly historical fiction or nonfiction with a historical bent.

Before I began freelancing as a writer and editor, I was a senior editor at Carolrhoda Books, in Minneapolis, MN. I’ve also been a soda jerk & waitress (at the Hobnob Corner Restaurant in Nashville, IN), a costumed tour guide and interpreter (at Historic Fort Snelling in St. Paul, MN), and a clerk in an independent bookstore, the late, great Hungry Mind of St. Paul. Currently, I’m also the part-time library aide at Twin Cities Academy, a middle school in St. Paul.

I studied French & history at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA, and got a master’s degree in Book Arts (the art and craft of making books by hand) at Mills College in Oakland, CA. And last, but not least, I am a library school drop-out.

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