Deborah Hopkinson is the author of numerous books for children, including A Packet of Seeds; Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings, a Jane Addams Award Honor Book; A Band of Angels, an ALA Notable Book; Fannie in the Kitchen, a Publishers Weekly Best Book; and Bluebird Summer, a Golden Kite Honor Award recipient from the Society of Children''s Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives with her husband and two children in Walla Walla, Washington.
