Escaping the Giant Wave

Peg Kehret'sbooks for young readers are regularly recommended by theAmerican Library Association, the International Reading Association, and the Children's Book Council. She has won twenty-one children's state book awards, the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, the PEN Center West Award for Children's Literature, and the Henry Bergh Award from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals forSaving Lilly.A longtime volunteer at the Humane Society, she often uses animals in her stories.Peg and her husband, Carl, live in a log house on ten acres of forest near Mount Rainier National Park. Their property is a sanctuary for blacktail deer, elk, rabbits, and many kinds of birds. When she is not writing, Peg likes to read, watch baseball, and pump her old player piano.Kehret, Peg is the author of 'Escaping the Giant Wave', published 2003 under ISBN 9780689852725 and ISBN 068985272X.