Liz Cooper grew up in Garden City, New York. She earned a BS Nursing from Catholic University , Washington DC . She switched careers, earned a masters degree in reading education, and spent 19 years in St Mary's County Public Schools (MD) as an elementary teacher and school system reading supervisor. Her entry François and the Tide came in top ten out of 5,000 entries in a contest co-sponsored by Scholastic and Woman's Day Magazine. More recently, three of her books from her Potts-Abilities series were chosen to be printed in braille and sent free of charge to 4,000 blind children in the United States. by a nonprofit organization—The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults. Recently, late 2022, Lightswitch Learning (an educationa
Loretta Sponsler is the award-winning author of "Goodnight, Campsite" and "The Tent Mouse and the RV Mouse." A New Mexico native, she currently calls Michigan home. She is a full-time mom, part-time writer, and all-the-time cheerleader of reading and children's books.
Loretta has a bachelor's degree in journalism, and when not busy writing, she enjoys starting home-improvement projects she never finishes.
***** "The Tent Mouse and the RV Mouse" Wins Coveted Purple Dragonfly Book Award *****
CHANDLER, AZ (July, 2020) - The judges of the Purple Dragonfly Book Awards contest, which recognizes excellence in children's literature, have spoken, and "The Tent Mouse and the RV Mouse" by Loretta Sponsler, won 2nd Place in the Outdoor Recreation catego
