PRESS KIT
Below are image files of my author photos and the covers for my books as well as two versions of my author biography for media and blog use. If different materials or formats are needed, please contact me and I will be happy to provide them.
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Well before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Aleck (as his family called him) was a curious boy, interested in how and why he was able to hear the world all around him. This in-depth look at the life and inspiration of the brilliant man who invented the telephone is sure to fire up the imaginations of young readers who question why and how things work.
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After the rain comes down, the sun comes out and dries the puddles. But the water isn't gone. The heat from the sun has turned it into water vapor--it has evaporated. Eventually, this moisture in the air condenses to form new clouds. Soon the rain will fall again. Read DOWN COMES THE RAIN to find out all the ups and downpours of the water cycle!
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It's a snowy, blowy wintry day--perfect for a yeti hunt.
Or so thinks big brother. His younger brother is not convinced. Questions abound: Have you ever seen a yeti? Is a yeti strong? How fast is a yeti? And who exactly is following whom? 
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Join Daphne and her brother, Sam, on the dazzling midway. It's a fun-filled carnival of ghosts and goblins.
So keep your eyes open. You don't want to miss a thing! 
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Did you know that a barn owl has one ear higher than another or that baby opossums hang onto their mother's fur for safety? Read and find out what animals do as we sleep.
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On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West--the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day.
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SHORT BIO
Mary Ann Fraser has written and illustrated many books for children, including ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ANSWERS THE CALL (Charlesbridge) and NO YETI YET (Peter Pauper Press). Her awards include Junior Library Guild Selections, School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Book Links Book of the Year, IRA Young Readers Choice Award, and American Booksellers "Pick of the List." She lives in Simi Valley, California with her husband, her three boys, seventeen turtles, and a geriatric newt. To learn more visit www.MaryAnnFraser.com.
LONG BIO
Mary Ann Fraser is the author/illustrator of over sixty fiction and non-fiction books for children, including her latest picture book, ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ANSWERS THE CALL (Charlesbridge), Other titles include .NO YETI YET (Peter Pauper Press), HEEBIE-JEEBIE JAMBOREE (Boyds Mills Press), the OGG & BOB books (Two Lions) TEN MILE DAY (Henry Holt), DOWN COMES THE RAIN and WHERE ARE THE NIGHT ANIMALS (HarperCollins). Her books have received Junior Library Guild SelectionS, School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Book Links Book of the Year, IRA Young Readers Choice Award, and American Booksellers "Pick of the List." She is a regional advisor for SCBWI, and a member of the California Readers Association, Children’s Authors Network, and the Children’s Literature Council, and when she is not writing, illustrating, or giving school presentations, she is painting murals, playing her hammered dulcimer, in her garden talking to her turtles, or reading. To learn more visit www.MaryAnnFraser.com.