Barbara Herkert

BARBARA HERKERT is the author of Sleep (Imagine This!) , Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist ; Mary Cassatt: Extraordinary Impressionist Painter ; and A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider: The Story of E.B. White . She received a bachelor's degree in biology from UC Santa Barbara and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. She lives in Port Ludlow, Washington, on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula with a variety of wildlife and a madrone tree for...See more

BARBARA HERKERT is the author of Sleep (Imagine This!) , Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist ; Mary Cassatt: Extraordinary Impressionist Painter ; and A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider: The Story of E.B. White . She received a bachelor's degree in biology from UC Santa Barbara and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. She lives in Port Ludlow, Washington, on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula with a variety of wildlife and a madrone tree for company. To find out more about Barbara and her books, visit www.BarbaraHerkert.com. See less