Author Kate Waters was born on September 4, 1951, in Rochester, NY.
She went on to earn a B.A. from Newtown College of the Sacred Heart
(Boston College) and a M.L.S. from Simmons' Graduate School of
Library and Information Science. She grew up in a big family in
which storytelling was very important. She worked as a librarian
for ten years at the Boston Public Library. There she became very
interested in telling stories to young people and finding out what
they enjoyed reading. She moved to New York where she worked on a
children's magazine. While working at the magazine, she started to
think about new ways to present history and traditions to children.
Her books include pictures of actors depicting the stories Kate
writes. In addition, her books have been praised for their content
and have won many awards. Kate currently lives in New York
City.
Acclaimed photographer Russ Kendall was born in Texas in 1957, but
grew up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. From an early age he was
interested in the world and other cultures, and he dreamed of
running away and living with the Eskimos -- something he would
eventually get to do while working on his award-winning Eskimo Boy:
Life in an Inupiaq Village. In school, Kendall thought he would
grow up to be a forest ranger or a veterinarian; although he loved
making pictures, he flunked his first photography class in tenth
grade.Kendall served in the Air National Guard in Massachusetts for
six years, and studied at Cape Cod Community College and Boston
University, majoring first in biology and later in journalism.
After graduation, he worked as a photographer for newspapers in
Anchorage, Alaska, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Kendall's first
book for children was the well-received Sarah Morton's Day: A Day
in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl, written by Kate Waters; the two have
since collaborated on that book's many companion volumes. In Giving
Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast, words by Kate Waters and
photographs by Russ Kendall help reconstruct the first
Thanksgiving. For both Eskimo Boy and Russian Girl: Life in an Old
Russian Town, he was able to spend several months at a time living
in a world very different from home.Russ Kendall now lives in
Portland, Oregon. When he is not working or traveling to faraway
places to take pictures, he enjoys kayaking, hiking, cooking, and
playing bluegrass guitar.
"The text is readable, the photographs are handsome, and the material has been meticulously researched for accuracy."-horn bk"A good job of dramatizing what life might have been like for the Wampanoags."-bk list
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