“...while the story magic pours over me.”  is the last line of my favorite poem in Did You See What I Saw? Poems about School. Both as a child and as an adult, story was and is magic for me. I was a teacher, a reading specialist, and a college instructor before following a childhood dream.  I wanted to be a children’s book author. What I enjoyed most about my career as an educator was sharing wonderful books with children and teachers.  Now I do author visits at schools, conferences, and libraries and share my own poetry books, early chapter books, biographies, and picture books for both young and older children.

     I started writing about what I know. Did You See What I Saw? Poems about School was my first published book . Later on, My Teacher for President  was published. That book came right out of my classroom experiences.

     The world of the teeny tiny has always fascinated me. The star of my Teeny Tiny Ghost series is so frightened he scares himself! Watch him cope in his teeny tiny world as he encounters bullies and monsters.  

      I love history!

     Or I do now.

     When I was a kid, history seemed like a boring collection of dates and events that had to be memorized. Once I discovered that stories make up history, and began to examine the lives of people who helped shape the past, I started to look at the world in a new way. Voices of Ancient Egypt  was followed by Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books. Colonial Voices will be coming in 2008, and Amelia Earhart: Fly She Did and Johnny Appleseed: His Trail of Trees are under contract.

     So welcome to my site. It was created by my husband Earl to share my background, books, author visits to schools, and how I love to bring the magic of story to kids, parents, teachers, librarians, and writers.

My Email Address: AuthorK@aol.com