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MacDonald, Amy (1951 - )
Genre: Children's Literature, Non-Fiction
Amy MacDonald was born and grew up in Beverly, Mass. and vacationed on Mt. Desert Island as a child. She graduated from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1973. Since 1988 she has lived in Falmouth, Maine with her husband, and sons. Besides being a writer of children's books, MacDonald has also been an editor, a journalist, a consultant in the U.S., France, and Great Britain, and a theatre company publications director. In addition to the books below, MacDonald has written a children's musical, Stop That Noise! She regularly teaches writing classes to kids in K-6 grades and has served as co-president of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance board of trustees.
Selected Bibliography
Books for Children
- Little Beaver and the Echo, (1990/1997/1998/1999)
- Rachel Fister's Blister, (1990/1993/1996/1999)
- Let's Play, (1992)
- Let's Try, (1992)
- Let's Make a Noise, (1992)
- Let's Do It, (1992)
- Let's Go, (1993)
- Let's Pretend, (1993)
- Cousin Ruth's Toothm (1996)
- The Spider Who Created the World, (1996)
- No More Nice, (1996/1998/1999)
- No More Nasty, (2001)
- Please, Malese: A Trickster Tale from Haiti, (2001)
- Quentin Fenton Herter III, (2002)
Books for Adults
- The Very Young Housewife, (1979)
- The Presumpscot River Watch Guide to the Presumpscot River: Its History, Ecology, and Recreational Uses, (1994).
