BOOKS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE   Pegi At-a-Glance Jock since birth. Poet since 1968 Journalist since 1979 Teacher of various skills since 1980 World Traveler since 1982 Publicist since 1984 Wife since 1986 Mother since 1990 Children’s Book Author since 1991 Softball & Soccer Coach since 1995 Lifelong dog lover, thus pooper scooper   New Books   Abe in Arms   Noah Webster: Weaver of Words   Junior Library Guild Selection! NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book! A Bank Street Book of the Year!   Recent Books:   Patience Wright: America's First Sculptor and Revolutionary Spy, The Boy and the Spell, (2007)   Liberty Rising (2005) The Carpet Boy's Gift (2003); Ten Mice for Tet (2003); Tangled Threads (2003) - Winner of the Connecticut Book Award for Children's Literature   Old Faves Bungalow Fungalow (1991); The Whispering Cloth (1995); New Moon (1997); Ekaterina Gordeeva (1999); The Impeachment Process (2000); I See Me (2000)   Books in Press   The Taxing Case of the Cows: A True Story of Suffrage, Fall 2010   Select Magazine Stories and Articles “Moving Pictures,” The Friend; “Marc’s Fairways,” Highlights; “The Hmong give thanks at New Year,” Appleseed; “The Dirty Little Snake,” Ladybug; “Family Torn Apart by Liberian Civil War,” Footsteps; “Canning Day,” Highlights.   Awards from IRA, NCTE, NCSS, Junior Library Guild, NY Public Library, Connecticut Center for the Book, Bank Street College, CCBC, Hungry Mind Review, NJ Poetry Center (Paterson Prize), Catholic Schools International, and many state and local reading associations.