Liza Gardner Walsh is the author of 17 books, ranging from board books and picture books to guidebooks that inspire children to explore the outdoors. When not writing stories, Liza creates copy for a toy company and has also worked as a school librarian, teacher, and public librarian.
She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and lives on the coast of Maine with her family, where she has spent the last 15 years helping hundreds of children find just right books and build tiny refuges for fairies in nature. She is represented by Caryn Wiseman of Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
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“Liza connects to children and adults by inviting each individual into a personal conversation about a wonderful secret that must be delicately shared, nurtured, and passed on with mutual creativity between generations. Liza is a lovely and gracious program partner who is easy to work with and flexible as the situation requires, be it a garden full of energetic elementary school kids or an audience of grandparents and toddlers. We look forward to more programs with Liza that restore to us our childhood dreams and sense of wonder.”
–Kate Pickup-McMullin, Assistant Director of Southwest Public Library
My urge during this season is always to stay inside and hibernate. Each day I push myself out, no matter what the weather, and am immediately glad I did. The winter landscape refreshes me. Although, it is getting harder to push my kids out these days, when they do, they always have the same reaction. In Fairy Houses All Year, I encourage kids to continue their work no matter the season. Like the famous postal creed, “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” children should not be kept from their awaiting fairy houses!