Loreen leedy biography husband

Hobbies and other interests: Making beaded jewelry, art quilting, reading. Home— FL. Author and illustrator. Craftsperson, specializing in jewelry, ; freelance writer and illustrator, —. Speaker at schools and conventions. David A. Loreen Leedy is an author and artist who has created a number of books that introduce important, life-navigating concepts to young readers.

Leedy often weaves mathematical concepts into her humorously illustrated picture books, with effective results; in Subtraction Action for instance, she "creates an action-packed volume that is perfectly suited to its audience," according to a Publishers Weekly reviewer. Measuring Penny and Mapping Penny's World introduce a young girl named Lisa as she brings home concepts from school and attempts to apply them to her own life: Penny, Lisa's dog, is measured, weighed and otherwise sized up in Measuring Penny, while the pup's habitat is thoroughly mapped out in Mapping Penny's World.

Stephanie Zvirin, reviewing Measuring Penny for Booklist, cited the book as a "creative introduction" to a sometimes perplexing subject. In Follow the Money! Called a "lighthearted travelogue" by a Kirkus Reviews writer, Follow the Money!

She lives on a forested property with deer, raccoons, turkeys, foxes, birds, and her husband, scientist Andrew Schuerger.

In both books, readers blast off into space and into the future, as a group of young space travelers reach a far-distant planetary or in the case of Pluto, not-quite-planetary destination and compare their new surroundings with those left behind on Earth. In Messages from Mars Leedy collaborates with husband Andrew Schuerger, an astrobiologist whose involvement with the Kennedy Space Center's Mars project adds a fascinating dimension to the couple's fictional story.

In School Library Journal, Mary Jean Smith praised Leedy's "colorful cartoons," and also noted the inclusion of "authentic photographs from NASA" and the wealth of "factual information" provided by the coauthors.