Laurie Krebs

In creating my picture books, I have combined my love of children's literature with my love of traveling to fascinating places. I hope through my series with Barefoot Books to introduce young readers to people and cultures that might be unfamiliar to them.

I also love 18th century history and enjoyed finding real people who plied the trades I wrote about in my Colonial series. One of the men, a miller named Isaac Keeler, had lived in my Connecticut town and when I wrote the story, I was living in a Keeler house a short distance from the mill.

I have four children and five grandsons, one step-granddaughter and one step- grandson, none of whom live close enough to suit me. I now live in Virginia with my husband, Bill, and my golden retriever, May.