Books by Audrey Penn from Tanglewood Press, publisher of The Kissing Hand and other books for children and young adults. The Kissing Hand Books More About Audrey Penn. Read an interview with Audrey Penn for US Kids magazines' Parents & Teachers page. Audrey Penn is an award- winning author of several books for children, including the highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Kissing Hand. She grew up outside Washington, DC, in Silver Spring, Maryland, and spent a great deal of time in North Carolina. As a child, Audrey had a gift for storytelling, and her teachers encouraged her to write. During the 1. 97. Audrey was a ballet dancer, performing with such groups as the New York City Ballet, the National Ballet, and the Stuttgard Ballet in Europe. She served as the dance coach to the US Figure Skating Team in preparation for the Pan American Games (1. US Gymnastic Team's dance coach in 1. Audrey's first book was Happy Apple Told Me, published in 1. In 1. 97. 9, however, she was confined to her bed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis - - a debilitating disease that ended her dance career and required many surgeries over the next 1. During this period of restricted mobility, Audrey increasingly channeled her artistic talents toward writing stories and books for children. Her most popular book to date, The Kissing Hand, published in 1. While she was riding a small train through a park, the train suddenly came to a stop. A raccoon mother and her tiny cub were on the tracks, and the mother was opening the cub's paw and appeared to be kissing it and putting it on the cub's face. Coincidentally, at the time, her own daughter was frightened of starting kindergarten, so Audrey used the concept of giving her daughter a kiss to save for when she needed it - - and it worked. The Kissing Hand continues to sell around 1. Mystery at Blackbeard's Cove, her first young adult book published in October 2. Penn spent the better part of that time getting to know the pirate descendents who still reside on Ocracoke Island, NC, where Blackbeard and many of his fellow pirates lived and died. She also researched the letters, journals, and diaries passed down through family and friends. The novel sold out of its first 1. Booklist. In addition to her writing, Audrey takes her educational program, the Writing Penn, into schools, libraries, and children's hospitals where she often shapes and refines her story ideas in partnership with kids. She is a much sought- after conference speaker for groups of teachers and other professionals who work with children. Ms. Penn lives with her husband in Olney, Maryland, near Washington, DC. She has three children.
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