About the Author

The author of internationally acclaimed children's books, Ann Cameron grew up in in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, U.S.A. She is an honors graduate of Harvard University, where she was awarded the James Bryant Conant Prize for science writing. She spends most of the year in Panajachel, Guatemala, where she and her late husband, Bill, rebuilt the local library with 13,000 donated books. It has been used as a model throughout the country. She continues to write surrounded by palm trees, flowers and butterflies near the shores of Lake Atitlan."