Gretchen Brandenburg McLellan

Gretchen Brandenburg McLellan is a children's author, reading specialist, and avid reader. When she's not playing with words, you can find her baking, hiking in the woods with her dog, cross-country skiing, playing pingpong and dancing. If she were in retail, she'd have a children's book and toy store replete with espresso bar and bakery and places to write and draw. She seeks out places just like this to write in. Have any suggestions? She is also on a personal quest for the best hot fudge sundae on the planet. Gretchen loves to travel, especially returning to the Germany of her nomadic army-brat childhood. She once traveled overland from the Netherlands to Kabul, Afghanistan with a backpack full of, you guessed it, books. Now she hopes little backpacks will be carrying her books on adventures of their own.