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▼▲Title: Black Duck - eBook By: Janet Taylor Lisle Format: DRM Protected ePub Vendor: Puffin Books Publication Date: 2007 | ISBN: 9781101663066 ISBN-13: 9781101663066 Ages: 10-12 Stock No: WW63657EB |
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▼▲"Riveting mystery and nonstop adventure." --School Library Journal
Author Bio
▼▲After graduation from Smith College in 1969 with a degree in English Literature, she enlisted and was trained for work in VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). She lived and worked for the next two years in Atlanta, Georgia, organizing food-buying cooperatives in the city's public housing projects and teaching in an early-child care center. Catalyzed by this experience, she enrolled in journalism courses at Georgia State University with the idea of writing about the poverty she had seen. This was the beginning of a reporting career that extended over the next ten years.
With the birth of her daughter in 1977, Lisle turned to writing projects that could be accomplished at home. In 1984, The Dancing Cats of Applesap, her first novel for children, was published. Subsequently, she has published ten other novels.
Afternoon of the Elves, a 1990 Newbery Honor Book, has been translated into six languages. It was produced as a play by the Seattle Children's Theater in 1993, and continues to be performed in children's theaters throughout the U.S. In this book, as in others she has written, the author plumbs a borderland between reality and fantasy where imagination holds sway and the ordinary surfaces of life crack open to reveal hidden worlds.
Elves, fairies and exotic creatures make appearances in her novels but whether they are real within the story, or merely imaginative projections of her characters, is often left unresolved.
"I think of magic as that which is still waiting to be discovered," the author has said. "I put it in my books to remind readers (myself included) to keep a sharp eye out. The unknown is everywhere, all around us and lurking even in our own minds."
She lives on the Rhode Island coast with her husband, Richard Lisle, and their daughter Elizabeth, a college student.
copyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.
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