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- Author Study
- By Tianna Griffith
- SUNY Potsdam, June 2009
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- Born in Central Pennsylvania, 1935
- 8th child in a family of 9
- At age 12 had a poem published that she wrote for her Sunday school
teacher
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- Honors Graduate of Lock Haven (PA) High School
- Milligan College (TN) graduated June 1956 as valedictorian
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- 1956; Aberdeen Jr. & Sr. High, taught 7th grade English,
Social Studies, Science
- 1961; Buckfield High School
- 1967; New York State, taught 7th & 8th grade
English
- 1970; Case Junior High in Watertown, Library Media Specialist
- 1990; Retired at age 55 to write full time
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- Married August 28, 1961
- Currently lives in Black River, New York with her husband Arthur and dog
Heidi
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- Santanoni Sunrise (1994)
- Co-authored with Claire Coughlin
- Salmon River Odyssey: The Town of Richland and Its Hamlets (2002)
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- Do You Love Jesus? (1972)
- Trucks, Trucking and You (1978)
- Big Rigs
- Snow Plows
- Machines on the Farm
- Fire Trucks
- To the Rescue
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- Load Lifters
- Isaac Johnson: From Slave to Stonecutter (1995, 2003)
- Wings in the Water: The Story of a Manta Ray
- 4 mini-biographies for kids
- Against the Tide: The Valor of Margaret Wilson (2007)
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- My Little Book of Wood Ducks (2003)
- My Little Book of Burrowing Owls (2003)
- My Little Book of Painted Turtles (2003)
- My Little Book of Timber Wolves (2003)
- My Little Book of River Otters (2003)
- My Little Book of Whitetails (2003)
- My Little Book of Manatees (2007)
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- Contains 7 books with the 8th to be released in June 2009
- Written for children between the ages of 4 and 8
- Stories about animal families exploring the world around them
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- My Little Book of Bald Eagles (June 2009)
- Trail to the Iditarod: A Year in the Life of a Young Maine Musher
- Biography of an eleven-year-old champion dog sled racer
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- Big Rigs
- Junior Literary Guild Selection (1981)
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- Isaac Johnson: From Slave to Stonecutter
- Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
- Charlotte Award Finalist (2006)
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- My Little Book of Whitetails
- ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award Finalist (2004)
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- My Little Book of River Otters
- Charlotte Award Finalist (2006)
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- My Little Book of Manatees
- Adirondack Literary award for Best Picture Book (2007)
- ForeWord Magazine’s Picture Book of the Year Award Finalist (2008)
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- Look through each book and see if you can find a tiny creature hiding
among the illustrations.
- There’s one of those little fellows in each of Maria’s books, but
sometimes I can’t remember where they are. But that’s how you can
recognize a Maria Magdalena Brown original! -Hope Irvin Marston
- They have no hidden meaning. It’sjust an artist’s originality being
exercised.
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-Hope Irvin Marston
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- Maria illustrated the first six books in MY LITTLE BOOK COLLECTION.
- Stephanie Mirocha has created the stunning art work for My Little Book
of Manatees and My Little Book of Bald Eagles.
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- One thing I try to get across to students when I do presentations is
that writing is a skill that is learned…just like learning to ride a
bike, or play the guitar or skate in the Olympics. We’re gifted in
different ways. For some so us, it’s very hard to hit a ball
thrown to us, but if we really want to hit it, we’ll keep practicing
until we learn…and we’ll take the risks of being hit by a wild pitch, or
breaking a leg by accidently sliding into another player. We take
the lumps because we’re focused on our goal of mastering the game.
The lumps in writing are there, too, but we write on and on and get
better with regular practice. The joy of holding a book in your
hands that has our name on the cover is reserved for those of us who
pursue our writing goals and never give up. –Hope Irvin Marston
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