Main, Katy

Author and illustrator Katy Main was a preschool teacher in Alaska for twenty-five years. She was a member of the National Association for the Education of the Young Child and the American Montessori Society. She earned a bachelor of fine arts in illustration from the University of Alaska Anchorage. BABY ANIMALS OF THE NORTH grew out of Main s love for art, children, and the forty-ninth state. She researched the book for five years and eventually filled twenty-two notebooks with information about Alaska s flora and fauna. It was her hope that the book would stimulate in early readers a sense o...