Mary Quattlebaum is the author of 19 award-winning children’s books, most recently “Pirate vs. Pirate,” “The Hungry Ghost of Rue Orleans” (Random House), and “Jo MacDonald Had a Garden.” She has received Random House’s Marguerite de Angeli Prize for Middle-grade Novel, Parenting‘s Reading Magic Award, SIBA’s Award for Best Picture Book, NAPPA’s Gold Award, and has been included on several state Children’s Choice lists. Mary teaches in the Vermont College MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults and at the Writer’s Center in Maryland.  Mary also reviews books for The Washington Post and Washington Parent and loves dressing as a “book buccaneer” to give school presentations.

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