From a very early age, Goldie Gendler Silverman loved to write poems and stories. Her first paid published work was an advertising jingle in the Omaha World-Herald when she was still in grade school. For this she was paid one dollar. Since then, Goldie has been one of the authors of two remedial reading series (The Phoenix Readers and Duplicator Books), co-author of four low-fat, low-salt cookbooks, author of scripts for Seattle DayTour guides, and author of two well-received outdoor books, Backpacking With Babies and Small Children and Camping with Kids. Far from Omaha, she now writes from he...