Amanda Shepherd is the illustrator of FOUR books - Rules of the Wild by Bridget Levin, Who Loves Me by Patricia MacLachlan, Fiona Loves the Night by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily Charest Maclachlan and Such a Silly Baby by Chronicle books. Originally from the Seattle area, she lives in Phoenix Arizona with her wildly creative husband Gary and the Polly the hurricane baby cat. Baby Kat (BK Cat) is a leaping, bug catching wild grey tabby - taking the world by storm. A Book is simply a container of an idea - like a bottle. What's inside the book is what matters. Angela Carter. Recent Personal Reading: The Secret Life of Bees: Sue Monk (I love this book!!) Twilight: Stephenie Meyer Eclipse: Stephenie Meyer That Quail Robert: Margaret A. Stanger The Saffron Kitchen: Yasmin Crother (fascinating Book) Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little Town on the Prairie, The Long Winter, On the Banks of Plum Creek David Laskin: The Childrens Blizzard Edvart Rolvaag: Giants in the Earth Patricia MacLachlan: Sarah Plain and Tall Janet Spaeth: Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko Blue Horses Rush In: Luci Tapahonso A Single Shard : Linda Sue Park And of course Harry Potter.... yes I stood in line Personal Notes: Storybook Imagination: I have been thinking about how critical imagination is in story. Even in non-fiction. How we love those moments when a book breaks free of what we anticipate opening into a world we suddenly understand and imagine. How incredible it is that in a book we can find ourselves... ...more than the canvas itself, what counts is what eminates from it. J. Miro Georgia O Keeffe once said : I always thought someone would tell me how to paint a landscape...There were always people who could tell me how to paint their landscapes not mine... Personal personal note: Amanda is passionate about trees...even prickly ones. altoid boxes my lunchbox an Iditarod passion grand canyon hiking