A Girl, a Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon
By Karen Romano Young and Jessixa Bagley
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Karen Romano Young
When Karen Romano Young was growing up, she and her sisters and brother spent most of their time exploring the wetlands down the road. The mill there was home to a woman who taught her about the wetlands and only once yelled at her for destroying frog eggs by stepping on them. These days the author lives near a marsh full of frogs in Bethel, Connecticut, with her husband, three children, two guinea pigs, a dog, and a cat. In Her Own Words... "My first published writing was a poem called My Secret Place. I wrote it in fourth grade, and it appeared in my local paper and in a book of 100 poems written by children in our school district. The place in the poem was a shady spot under trees, but more important was what I did there: write! "I've kept a diary since I was nine, and as a child I wrote poems and stories and lots of letters. If I wasn't writing, I was reading. Everyone around me read-to themselves, to each other, to me. My grandmother has this saying framed on her wall: "Richer than 1, you will never be, for I had a mother who read to me." I'll add to that: My mother took me to the library-the Fairfield Children's Library in Fairfield, Connecticut, where I grew up. Once I was too old to have a child's card, I even worked there, looking after the picture books and children's novels all the way through high school and even on vacations home from my school, Syracuse University. "Part of my college education was a semester in England, where I did an independent study of storytelling and folklore (especially, different versions of "Rumpelstiltskin") that took me all over the country reading and telling stories to children. At the end of college my English boyfriend, Mark Young, immigrated, and we got married in Connecticut. "My first job was writing for Scholastic's news magazines-the ones kids use in their classrooms to learn about the news and lots of other things. What a cool job: interviewing all sorts of people, doing tons of research, writing on a very short deadline. It was hard and colorful and lively and exciting, and I spent every day in New York City. I had gone to college to learn to be a teacher-but now I was hooked on writing for a living and never went back to teaching. "After our daughter Bethany was born, I decided I didn't need a New York office--or even a spot under the trees--to be able to write. I stayed home and worked in the spare bedroom. I wrote for all kinds of children's magazines, covering everything from rock climbing to rocket science. "Around the time Sam was born, I began writing nonfiction books. I've written about so many different things, but I especially love writing about people and all the different ways they live their lives: high-wire artists, Arctic scientists, a lady who tap-danced across the Golden Gate Bridge, and a man who walked all the way around the world. "When Emily was born, writing time was tight. But I had lots of time to think. During high school I had written a picture book called The Blue Volkswagen. Now I began thinking about where that old Beetle might be these days. One day I took the kids to the library. Outside, a woman was selling prints of her photographs. One of them showed an old Beetle sitting in the doorway of a barn. I bought it, took it home, and began writing a story in the twenty minutes a day I had to myself. I didn't write about my real self or about anything that had really happened to me, but I tried to think of my story as I would have felt or acted if I were Daisy living in that farmhouse at that time. After The Beetle and Me came Video, and more and more stories after that. "My husband, children, dog, cat, guinea pigs, and I have a small, noisy, weird house in the Connecticut woods. Our lives are full of books, and we all read every chance we get. I write everyplace: in the kitchen, in the car, in the barn, in the school parking lot, in the Reading Room at the New York Public Library, at the beach. I write and write and write...."
Read more from Karen Romano Young
Outside In Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A Girl, a Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hundred Percent Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels Are Everywhere: What They Are, Where They Come From, and What They Do Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Girl, a Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon
Related ebooks
Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist: The True Story of a World-Traveling Bug Hunter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJust South of Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spice and the Devil's Cave Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Griffins of Castle Cary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All Four Quarters of the Moon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last of the Name Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Shine On, Luz Véliz! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlone in the Woods Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tai and the Istanbul Treasure Hunt Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Much Ado About Baseball Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Island: A Story of the Galápagos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fred Korematsu Speaks Up Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Book of Boy: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In a Dark Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOpal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5West of the Moon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wig in the Window Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The List of Unspeakable Fears Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Skylarks' War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emperor's Riddle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If This Were a Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Under the Broken Sky Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rules for Stealing Stars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Story Collector: A New York Public Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Children's For You
The Dark Is Rising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Witch of Blackbird Pond: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Into the Wild: Warriors #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Graveyard Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Phantom Tollbooth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Coraline Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amari and the Night Brothers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cedric The Shark Get's Toothache: Bedtime Stories For Children, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little House on the Prairie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bridge to Terabithia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fever 1793 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Over Sea, Under Stone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secret Garden: The 100th Anniversary Edition with Tasha Tudor Art and Bonus Materials Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twas the Night Before Christmas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Island of the Blue Dolphins: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Shadow Is Purple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Alice In Wonderland: The Original 1865 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Lewis Carroll Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe School for Good and Evil: Now a Netflix Originals Movie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Day My Fart Followed Me Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Out of My Heart Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tikki Tikki Tembo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Girl, a Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon
0 ratings0 reviews