
I have been writing picture books and easy-to-read chapter books for the last twenty years. My first YA, The Best and Hardest Thing, a novel in verse, will be coming out in May 2010. I am a former elementary school teacher, school librarian and reference librarian in a public library. I now write full-time and do author visits to schools. My husband and I have four grown sons. We live in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Our last name has a short "i" sound and rhymes with "listen".

A Book of Relationships
2004

From Farm to Table
2014

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2000

The Wildlife in Your Neighborhood
2020

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2010

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2010

1998

A Celebration of Community
2022

2020

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