Amy MacDonald is an American author of children's books. Her works include ''Little Beaver and the Echo'', which has been translated into 28 languages around the world, and ''Rachel Fister's Blister''. Her first book, a

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's children's books, was ''A Very Young Housewife''. Amy MacDonald was born 1951 in Beverly,

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. She enjoyed reading books and writing satirical stories during her childhood. Amy MacDonald graduated from high school at

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(1969), South Hamilton, Massachusetts and she graduated from college at the

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(1973). She married Thomas Urquhart in 1976. Amy MacDonald went to France to study

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6 years after marrying her husband and moved to England and had children. A

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, she has written for the ''

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'', and many publications, as well as co-producing a

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, "On This Island", shown on

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's Independent Lens series. She teaches writing to schoolchildren around the world as well as working as a teaching artist for the

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She now lives in

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with her husband and three children.Walker Books.com

Bibliography

* 1979 ''A Very Young Housewife'' s Del Tremens* 1990 ''Little Beaver and the Echo'' * 1990 ''Rachel Fister's Blister'' * 1991 ''Let's Do It, Let's Make a Noise, Let's Try'' * 1991 ''Let's Play'' * 1992 ''Let's Go'' * 1992 ''Let's Pretend'' * 1996 ''No More Nice'' * 1996 ''Cousin Ruth's Tooth'' * 1996 ''The Spider Who Created the World'' * 2001 ''No More Nasty'' * 2002 ''Quentin Fenton Herter III'' * 2002 ''Please, Malese! A Trickster Tale from Haiti'' * 2008 ''Too Much Flapdoodle''

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