This contemporary author/illustrator lives in the country in upstate New York. Her grandfather was a cowboy out west, but she grew up in Queens and attended Cooper Union Art College. On her website she says that while she loves writing stories, "drawing pictures is like dessert." Several of her best-loved books feature a big white bear and his goose friend, but she also has books about pigs and even one that stars a time-travelling trio--an aardvark, an anteater, and an armadillo. I was honored to meet her at a Highlights writing conference in Honesdale, PA where she took me shopping at the Goodwill. This is the wonderful Susanne Bloom, "A Splendid Friend Indeed."
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