Mary E. Lyons is the author of many books for children and young adults, including
Roy Makes a Car, Feed the Children First, Dear Ellen Bee, Letters from a Slave Girl, and
Sorrow's Kitchen. In addition to the Golden Kite Award and a
Horn Book Fanfare for
Letters from a Slave Girl, Lyons was also the recipient of a 2005 Aesop Award for
Roy Makes a Car and a Carter G. Woodson Award for
Sorrow's Kitchen. A teacher and former librarian, she lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. You can learn more about her at
www.lyonsdenbooks.com.