About

Author: Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan (Holiday House) Parents' Choice Gold Award-Winner for nonfiction 2001
Author: Learning With the Brainy Bunch (Key Education) 2009 Book of the Year Award, "Creative Child Magazine"
Author: Elementary Economics (McGraw Hill) 2002 Teacher's Choice Gold Award, "Learning Magazine"
1993-2002—Executive Editor "A New Day" magazine for activity coordinators
1980-1993—Executive Editor "Shining Star" for Christian educators
1980-1994—Editor of 250+ Christian activitybooks (Good Apple/Shining Star Publications)
1977-2005—Author of 300+ published teacher activity books for preschool, primary, and junior high
1974-76—Teacher, kindergarten through fourth grade, Carrisa Plains Elementary School, Carrisa Plains, California
1971-74—Teacher, second, third and fifth grades, Golden View Elementary School, Huntington Beach