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And we have two grown sons who, thankfully, work hard to help others.
My two favorite books when I was a girl were Black Beauty and Heidi. Since 1998 she has been a national writing consultant, working in classrooms in grades K-8. From 2002-2005, she was an associate professor at Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, offering graduate classes on writing instruction in elementary grades.
Her favorite food is ripe blueberries right off the bush. Her name is Maya and she is a yellow lab.
She also has published 12 Professional Resource books with Scholastic that assist teachers with writing instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms. My husband and I hike up and down the trails, enjoy the wildlife, and are always amazed by the sunsets.
Lola M.
Schaefer
Georgia Connections
- Dawsonville, Dawson County
Notes of Interest
Lola M. Schaefer is the award-winning author of dozens of books for children. And when the bookmobile stopped near our home, the librarian on board would always show me a few titles she had hand-selected for me.Reading is fuel for my writing.
As a girl, I liked to ride my bike (still do), swim at the nearby pool, play miniature golf, go on picnics, look for fossils, play card games, visit the library, and read, read, read.
I began writing books for children more than thirty years ago because I saw how important a good book was to each of my students.
I grow peppers, tomatoes, herbs, blueberries, horseradish and so many flowers that the bees and butterflies visit all summer and fall. I never met an author or heard one speak. Her most recently published books are "Boo Who?" released in 2009 and "Writing Lessons for the Interractive Whiteboard," also completed in 2009. It never occurred to me I might enjoy writing or one day become an author myself."
She received her BS in Education from Indiana University in 1972 and her MS in Education from Indiana in 1984.I also read Kidnapped and Swiss Family Robinson again and again.
Ted and I have one pet now. Today I read whenever and wherever I can – on our porch, in my office, curled up on the sofa, and always on airplanes.
As you can see from the photo at the top of this page, north Georgia is absolutely beautiful. I notice how other authors build suspense, introduce a character, or paint pictures with just the right words.
She writes that "Both of my parents read to me from an early age, and I quickly became an avid reader of biographies, science books and fiction, especially adventure stories." She did not write any poetry or fiction in school, however, "and the only writing I knew was reports: reports on dead presidents, dead explorers, dead inventors.
My mother took me to the Tecumseh Branch Library every week where I would check-out a tall stack of stories. In 2010, her book for early readers "Mittens" was chosen for inclusion on the Georgia Center for the Book's inaugural list of "25 Books All Young Georgians Should Read."
Her book "Frankie Stein" won the 2008 Children's Choice Book Award, and a number of her other titles have been recognized by educators and librarians.We would put on plays, go on hikes, read books, and create with clay, paints, and empty boxes.
I have been married to the love-of-my life – Ted – for the past 50 years. I can’t imagine one without the other.
I was born and grew up in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, but lived most of my life just outside Garrett, Indiana before moving here to the mountains of north Georgia.
I became the neighborhood babysitter and would sometimes care for the children of 2-3 families while the adults took a weekend break.
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