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About The Author

Polly Horvath
Polly Horvath has been writing since she was eight. She had an agent by the time she was fourteen. She grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and spent summers in Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin and went to ballet summer school in Elliot Lake, Ontario where she decided to become a dance teacher and write books and go to college in Canada, which she did when she was eighteen, studying at The Canadian College of Dance in Toronto. After that she worked in New York City and Montreal, where she married her husband, Arnie Keller, and had two daughters, Emily (16) and Rebecca (13). When Emily was three years old, the family moved to BC, first to Victoria and then to Metchosin, where they currently reside with their horse Zayda and smooth collie Keena.

Polly Horvath has published many books for children. In the US, all her work has been published by Farrar, Straus Giroux. Her books have been translated into many languages including, German, French, Thai, Japanese, Danish and Italian. Polly Horvath's books have won numerous awards and recognition including the National Book Award, the Newbery Honor, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, A Parents’ Choice Gold Award, the Mr. Christie Award, and the international White Raven.