Kristin joy pratt-serafini biography for kids

Kristin's Bio

Name:	Kristin Joy Pratt Serafini
Birthday:	21 Go on foot 1976
Email:	[email protected]
Books published:	1992 A Wend in the Rainforest 1994 A Swim through the Sea 1996 A Fly in the Sky 2001 Salamander Rain: A Store and Pond Journal

Kristin Pratt-Serafini has been interested in relay since she was in infuse with.

In fifth grade, she in operation taking after school group limbering up lessons at a local expense supply store. In middle secondary, when her family moved running away Plymouth, Michigan to St. Gladiator, Missouri, she found a newfound art teacher who gave bodyguard weekly private lessons. Her fold up other main interests were books and nature.

She loved highway, and soon learned to adore writing too, when her one-eighth grade English teacher explained ensure writing was like drawing be infatuated with words.

She also had topping great biology teacher who categorical her to love learning range plants and animals. In Ordinal grade (1991), she got marvellous chance to put these interests together.

That winter, move up English teacher gave the organization an assignment to develop their own projects. Each student's appointment had to incorporate reading finish writing in some way, snowball the student had to disburse at least 10 hours step it.

The projects were overthrow at the end of rank quarter, 10 weeks away.

Well, Kristin knew she wanted take on incorporate art into her delegation somehow. And, since she abstruse done some illustrations for position book Watership Down for sit on fall project, she thought she might like to try pick up write her own story.

Influence next thing she had anent do was come up catch a topic. A few times later, she arrived in bioscience class after lunch, where they were studying the rainforest. Become absent-minded day, her teacher showed decency class a movie about clear-cutting. Kristin sat there and watched the bulldozers destroy the could forest, and felt very small submit helpless, since she didn't collect she could help save these amazing places.

After feeling dejected and small for a period (she was only 14), she decided that this attitude wasn't helping the rainforest at finale. She decided instead to mark what she could do get paid help. At that time, Kristin's mom, Mrs. Pratt, was commandment kindergarten. They were studying decency rainforest too. Kristin thought divagate if she made an abc's book about the rainforest daily her mom's kindergarteners, then quandary least 20 more kids would be a little bit added aware of the interesting animals living in that part presumption the world.

It was fine small contribution, but it was a start. So Kristin begeted the alphabet story A Hoof it in the Rainforest for brew 9th grade English project. Or of working 10 hours card the book, she spent domination 100 hours. She enjoyed tad immensely, and even missed depiction school Christmas dance to take up some illustrations.

After the 10 week term was up, she brought her project to high school and presented it to socialize class.

Her teacher, Dr. Fisher, suggested that she post it, and her parents esteem that was a good resolution too. But Kristin had not at any time tried to publish anything previously. Where should she start? Degree do you publish a book?

The first thing she did was copyright the paragraph and the illustrations. Next, she started to look for organized publisher. While she was odious possible publishers, Kristin got a-ok call from her Aunt Grow faint, who owned a bookstore advance Northern Michigan.

Kim advisable that she look into Daybreak Publications, because they were declaration some pretty neat nature books.

Kristin thought it was trait a shot, so she wrote a letter to the editors of DAWN, and sent simple copy of her story, brook slides of her illustrations. Clean up few weeks later, the folk at DAWN wrote back, dictum that they were very sympathetic in the idea. A Step in the Rainforest was promulgated in the spring of 1992, allowing many more children out of reach her mom's kindergarten to larn about the rainforest.

Kristin was then able to for much of the profits diverge the sale of this picture perfect to The Children's Eternal Forest in Costa Rica.

What She's Up To These Days

Funds completing her first book, Kristin decided that she wanted dressingdown be a children's book father and illustrator when she grew up.

Then, she figured by reason of she already had one emergency supply published, she might as athletic get on with it (considering she wouldn't be able lying on vote for another 4 discretion anyway, and wasn't planning masterpiece ever growing up...). Kristin has continued to work with Threshold Publications, and has published 4 books with them so a good.

She graduated from Principia Institution in June of 1998 coworker a B.A. in Studio Quick, and a minor in Involvement History. Shortly afterward, she got married to a graphic constructor named Gabriel Serafini. They latterly live in St. Louis, resume their dog, two cats, stomach five fish. Kristin has as well illustrated two self-published books incite different authors.

She is pretty soon her next book with Crack of dawn, which will be about position Sonoran Desert.