Right now I have just completed my newest YA novel, called Trouble in Timbuktu. This was an interesting challenge because I find my setting of Timbuktu is as a much a character as the main characters Ahmed and Ayisha. It’s definitely a challenge writing about the Sahara while living in the Caribbean, but fortunately I have detailed journals about my 3 trips to Timbuktu to bring the place alive on the page. My next book will be Animal Party, a book about group names for different animals.
For the month of May the ASPCA will be featuring Jubela and Our Secret, Siri Aang in their Henry's Book Club for Kids, named for the founder of ASPCA and namesake of the Henry Bergh Children's Book Awards. Cristina Kessler will be doing a live on-line chat with club members on May 20, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. EST.
