Sarah Stewart

Sarah Stewart is an author who early developed a love for quiet, orderly places. The former Latin and philosophy student loved libraries and her Grandmother's garden as a child, two loves that have carried over into the children's books she's written in collaboration with her illustrator husband, David Small.

Stewart grew up in Texas, a quiet, shy girl. Over the years, she's worked as a teacher, speechwriter, children's book reviewer, copyeditor, poet, and ombudsman.

She and her husband now live in Michigan in a historic home on the St. Joseph River. She has five gardens and an orchard in which she works daily from May until October. "Then much of the late fall and winter is spent in my library, daydreaming and reading and writing, on the second floor of our home. Like a small animal in hibernation, I make a warm nest in the old wing chair with my grandmother's quilt and the lamp and my beloved books. It is paradise."

Their two children are now grown.

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