About the Author

Shelley Swanson Sateren has been a freelance writer for thirty years and has written more than forty books for children, both fiction and nonfiction. Besides writing, Shelley has worked as a children’s book editor and in a children’s bookstore. She is also a certified K–6 schoolteacher and has enjoyed employment in several schools. Shelley lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with her husband and has two grown sons.