Mary Newell DePalma has written and illustrated several books for children, including
The Strange Egg (Houghton Mifflin) and
A Grand Old Tree (Scholastic), which received the IRA/CBC Children's Choice award. She has also illustrated several books for Eerdmans:
Swimming Sal,
Now It Is Winter, and
Now It Is Summer. Mary lives in Massachusetts. Visit her website at
www.marynewelldepalma.com.