On Sunday, November 4th at 1pm, Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs welcomes children’s authors Jane Yolen and her daughter Heidi Stemple for a special story time that’s all about birds featuring Fly With Me, Crow Not Crow, and Counting Birds.
Jane Yolen is an author of children’s books, fantasy, and science fiction, including Owl Moon, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? She is also a poet, a teacher of writing and literature, and a reviewer of children’s literature. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century.
Heidi Stemple lives and writes on a big old farm in Massachusetts that she shares with one very small cat who lives inside, and a dozen deer, a family of bears, three coyotes, two bobcats, a gray fox, tons of birds, and some very fat groundhogs who live outside. she has published more than twenty-five books and numerous short stories and poems, mostly for children. She also happens to be Jane Yolen’s daughter.
