Award-winning children’s book author Elaine Landau worked as a newspaper reporter, a children’s book editor, and a youth services librarian before becoming a full-time writer. She has written more than three hundred books for young readers. Among her recent titles are Oil Spill! Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico; Meth: America’s Drug Epidemic; The Best Dogs Ever series; and Suicide Bombers: Foot Soldiers of the Terrorist Movement, which was named a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2007 by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children’s Book Council. Landau has a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism from New York University and a master’s degree in library and information science from Pratt Institute. She lives in Miami, Florida, with her husband and son.
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