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Welcome to the New PegiDeitzShea.com!
Pegi At-a-Glance
Jock since birth.
Poet since 1968
Journalist since 1979
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
Patience Wright: America's First Sculptor and Revolutionary Spy,
The Boy and the Spell
Recent Books
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
Noah Webster: Weaver of Words (Spring 2008)
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.
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