Charlotte Agell (1959 - )

Genre: Young Adult, Poetry, Children's Literature

Agell is a children's and young adult books author and illustrator and poet. She was born in Sweden on 7 Sept. 1959, lived in Montreal and Hong Kong, and came to Maine in 1977 to attend Bowdoin College. She lives now in Brunswick with her husband, Peter Simmons, and their two children. She's a language arts teacher at Harrison Middle School in Yarmouth. You can find information about Agell's speaking availability online.

Books include:

• Making Paper By Hand (1981)
• I Swam with a Seal (1985)
• The Sailor's Book (1991)
• Dancing Feet (1994)
• Mud Makes Me Dance in the Spring (1994)
• I Wear Long Green Hair in the Summer (1994)
• Wind Spins Me Around in the Fall (1994)
• I Slide into the White of Winter (1994)
• To The Island (1998)
• Up the Mountain (2000)
• Welcome Home or Someplace Like It (2003), a young adult novel set in the fictional town of Ludwig on the coast of Maine.
• Shift (2008), about the post-nuclear accident journey of two teenagers and a penguin.

Last Update: 12/14/2008

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