Jane Ellen Freeman

Jane Ellen Freeman is a former language arts teacher who has been creating stories for over fifteen years. Once, to inspire her middle school students to use their imagination, she wrote a story about the class where their mobile classroom was suddenly lifted by a flying saucer and transported to another planet! Each student played a part in the story and they eventually turned the whole idea into a play. Jane Ellen remembers many wonderful stories created that year by her students.

Parodies on fairy tales were another popular writing project. Jane Ellen's story was a spoof of Little Red Riding Hood where a sheltered ten-year-old boy who plays the harmonica is befriended by a largish girl nicknamed Big Red. The boy's name is Harvey Wolf and their role reversal creates several humorous scenes which have Big Red masquerading as--you guessed it--an old granny.

JEREMIAH LUCKY AND THE GUARDIAN ANGEL (published by www.guardianangelpublishing.com) was released December of 2014 and is Jane Ellen's first published story for children. Artist Eric Hammond's illustrations accompany the story about a little boy who meets his guardian angel, solves some major worries, and learns to keep his promises. Readers who enjoy this story can read a second book JEREMIAH LUCKY FINDS PUPPY LOVE, released November of 2015. In this story Jeremiah plays the prince in a play about The Frog Prince.

In September of 2019 Jane Ellen published her historical fiction ghost story BEYOND THE STONE EAGLE GATE, intended for teens and adults. David, age fifteen and an orphan, flees a false accusation of theft and discovers an abandoned mansion. Exhausted, he falls asleep in a fantastic library. A shimmering light hovers over him. Has he been drawn into a refuge or a trap?

December 2019. THE WHISPERING CHIMNEY, a middle-grade story for ten and up, debuts in both print and ebook versions. Eleven-year-old Bethany discovers a stone chimney dating from pioneer times. What she learns leads her to experience the lives of the young family who built the cabin two hundred years ago. In this adventure story Bethany grows to understand both the past and the circumstances of her present-day life.