Roberta Karim

Roberta Karim was inspired to write this story when she discovered that a lakeside road near her home was originally a buffalo trail. She is the author of two previous picture books, Mandy Sue Day, illustrated by Karen Ritz, and This is a Hospital, Not a Zoo!, illustrated by Sue Truesdell. Roberta Karim lives with her husband and two sons in Bay Village, Ohio. Bethanne Andersen's first book for children, Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne, was a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book and winner of...See more

Roberta Karim was inspired to write this story when she discovered that a lakeside road near her home was originally a buffalo trail. She is the author of two previous picture books, Mandy Sue Day, illustrated by Karen Ritz, and This is a Hospital, Not a Zoo!, illustrated by Sue Truesdell. Roberta Karim lives with her husband and two sons in Bay Village, Ohio. Bethanne Andersen's first book for children, Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne, was a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book and winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. The artist received her M.F.A. degree from Brigham Young University and studied illustration in the Masters program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Bethanne Andersen lives along a river in Idaho with her husband and two sons. See less