Perkins, Lynne Rae: - Lynne Rae Perkins was awarded the Newbery Medal for Criss Cross . www.lynnerae.com.
The author lives with her family in northern Michigan.
Lynne Rae Perkins has also written and illustrated several acclaimed picture books, including Frank and Lucky Get Schooled
The Broken Cat
Snow Music : Pictures from Our Vacation ; and The Cardboard Piano .
She is the author of four other novels-- All Alone in the Universe , As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth , Nuts to You, and Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea .
Perkins, Lynne Rae: - Lynne Rae Perkins was awarded the Newbery Medal for Criss Cross