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by Carla Ketner (Author)
Winner of the 2024 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People
Winner of the 2024 Midwest Book Award
Winner of the 2024 Nebraska Book Award
Semifinalist for 2024 Society of Midland Authors Award
Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
Named a Best New Children's Book of 2023 by NCompass Live
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Author Biography
Carla Ketner is the owner and manager of Chapters Books & Gifts in Seward, Nebraska. She is a former elementary school teacher and instructor of college-level children's literature courses. Ted Kooser: More Than a Local Wonder is her first picture book. When not reading, writing, or connecting readers with books, she is likely to be walking her grand-dog, looking up the names of local wildflowers, baking anything that lists chocolate as an ingredient, or traveling with friends and family. She and her husband have two grown sons.
Paula Wallace is an artist and illustrator, spending most days in her studio at the Hot Shops Art Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She has helped many authors tell their stories with her illustrations and has written and illustrated her own books, including Choose Your Days (Nebraska Children's Picture Book Award winner) and Mr. Reginald and the Bunnies. Wallace employs her love of stories in arts outreach and community engagement. Her work as a fine artist has appeared in many exhibits in the United States and Italy and is held in public and private collections internationally.
