About Dashka Slater
Dashka Slater’s four picture books have won widespread praise for their inventive language and vivid imagery. Her first book, Baby Shoes, was named one of the best children’s books of 2006 by both Booklist and Nick Jr. magazines and was chosen for the Texas 2 x 2 list of best books for children age 2 to grade 2. Her third book, The Sea Serpent and Me, was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a finalist for the Cybil and Chickadee Awards, as well as being named to the 2008 Librarians’ Choices List of the best books for children and young adults. A recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Slater is also an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in such publications as Newsweek, Salon, The New York Times Magazine and Mother Jones. She is the Going Green columnist for Fit Pregnancy magazine and the author of a novel, The Wishing Box, which the Los Angeles Times named to its list of the year’s best fiction in 2000.
