TTLG Author/Illustrator Profiles

Gail Langer Karwoski

Gail Langer Karwoski

Gail Langer Karwoski taught third- and fourth-grade students in Watkinsville, Georgia, for several years. She received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts and her M.A. from the University of Minnesota, later earning her elementary and gifted teaching certificates at the University of Georgia. She is the co-author of The Tree That Owns Itself and Other Stories from Out of the Past with Loretta Hammer and the author of:

SeaMan: The Dog Who Explored the West With Lewis & Clark, Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures of Young Sam Collier

Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906.

Miracle, the True Story of the Wreck of the Sea Venture (Ohio: Darby Creek, 2004)

Water Beds; Sleeping in the Ocean (South Carolina: Sylvan Dell, 2005)

Tsunami, the True Story of an April Fools' Day Disaster (Ohio: Darby Creek, 2006)

Website: http://www.gailkarwoski.com/