This author grew up outside of Boston, and her mother took her to the library every week to take home a pile of books. She loved stories, and she considered careers in journalism and writing ad copy. But after she married a children's book illustrator, she fell in love with picture books. One of her most well known books tells a story backwards: "Before she was Harriet, she was..." and on back through the slave's life. I was fortunate to hear her read her book at a Highlights workshop in the woods of Pennsylvania, and that's where I'm headed today, to learn from other authors.
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