


Her papers are cataloged at the University of Minnesota's Kerlan Collection. She lives in San Diego with her husband, Paul Brewer, a children’s book illustrator and author. She left publishing in 1984 and began to establish herself as a children's book author. She moved to San Diego to work as a Senior Editor at Harcourt, editing such authors as Tomie dePaola, Eve Bunting, Patricia Hermes, Anne Lindbergh, Jane Yolen, Arnold Adoff, Amy Schwartz, Judy Delton, and Lael Littke. She worked at Western Publishing from 1974 to 1979, where she edited and wrote books in the Trixie Belden series. Krull worked as a children’s book editor for several companies in the Midwest. Use this book along with the text-specific questions provided in my downloadable Interactive Read Aloud. This is a great book to use during a biography unit or during a nonfiction unit. from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, magna cum laude, majoring in English, minoring in music. This week’s spotlight Book of the Month and interactive read aloud I chose to feature is called Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull. She graduated from Regina Dominican High School in Wilmette, studied music at Northwestern University, and then earned a B.A.

The fight, in Chavez view, had to be non-violent. In his early 20s, Chavez devoted himself to a lifelong fight for the rights of farm workers. Chavez was appalled by the poor working conditions, very low pay, long hours without rest or access to clean drinking water or bathrooms. Krull was born in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri in 1952 and grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. His family moved to California to become migrant workers. Kathleen Krull is an author of children's books. (Missouri, Pulaski County, United States of America)
