Before moving to Colorado, Linda Armstrong was an educator in Los Angeles. She served first as a classroom teacher, and later as a Language Development Resource Teacher based in the schoollibrary. She told stories in costume, presented puppet shows, sponsored a drama club, and coordinated a school-wide Language Arts festival. Now, Linda writes books for children and their teachers. Her credits include more than twenty adaptations of classic stories, a collection of contemporary free verse, a middle grade novel, a book of art projects for elementary teachers, and several phonics books. She has also written supplementary classroom materials for language arts, history, reading comprehension, and math.