Amy MacDonald is the American author of the children's books Little Beaver and the Echo, which has been translated into 28 languages around the world, and Rachel Fister's Blister. Her first book, a satire of Jill Krements' children's books, was A Very Young Housewife. Amy MacDonald was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. She enjoyed reading books and writing satirical stories during her childhood.[1] Amy MacDonald graduated from high school at Pingree School (1969), South Hamilton, Massachusetts and she graduated from college at the University of Pennsylvania (1973). She married Thomas Urquhart in 1976. Amy MacDonald went to France to study journalism 6 years after marrying her husband and moved to England and had children. A freelance journalist, she has written for the New Yorker, the Times of London, and many publications, as well as co-producing a documentary film shown on PBS's Independent Lens series ("On This Island"). She teaches writing to schoolchildren around the world as well as working as a teaching artist for the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D. C. She now lives in Maine with her husband and three children.[2]
Bibliography
- 1979 A Very Young Housewife
- 1990 Little Beaver and the Echo
- 1990 Rachel Fister's Blister
- 1991 Let's Do It, Let's Make a Noise, Let's Try
- 1991 Let's Play
- 1992 Let's Go
- 1992 Let's Pretend
- 1996 No More Nice, Cousin Ruth's Tooth
- 1996 The Spider Who Created the World
- 2001 No More Nasty
- 2002 Quentin Fenton Herter III
- 2002 Please, Malese! A Trickster Tale from Haiti
