Author Profile

Author Profile -- Becky Hall

BORN: Worcester, MA (a long long time ago!)

PARENTS: Jim and Betty Gummere. She was an interior decorator. He was a businessman. He died years ago but my mother is now 90 years old and still kicking...dogs, kids, and me if I don't respond fast enough.

SPOUSE: Dave Hall:  landscape painter (former educator like me but he got dreaming about his creative side and left teaching 3 years ago)

CHILDREN: daughter (19) son (14)

EDUCATION: BA (psychology)from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY MA(Math Education) at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA Library/Media Certification- Utah Sate University- Logan, UT

PLACES LIVED: Grafton, MA Ages 1-18- a small New England country town Saratoga Springs, NY (College), Boston, MA (What a fun place to live!) New Haven, CT (2 years while my husband was in grad. school) Helena, MT 1 year Salt Lake City, UT since 1977...a really long time!

OTHER JOBS HELD: Retail sales (That's how I bought my clothes in college), nanny and cook (This is how I learned to cook!), waitress (This is how I learned to love eating HAHA), behavior therapist (Who's helping whom?), and classroom teacher (Grades 2-8). Now I am a full time elementary school library media specialist (also known as a librarian).

HOBBIES: playing with my husband, 2 kids, and 2 dogs, hiking, skiing, reading, boating, collecting antiques

PHOBIAS: heights (This helps me avoid some of the chores like re-roofing the garage and putting up Christmas lights in snowy trees!)

RECENT BOOKS: A is for Arches. Coming soon: A Utah Counting book

PUBLISH WITH: Sleeping Bear Press

SCHOOL VISIT ACTIVITIES:
Using picture books as mentor texts, The writing life, recording your life in journals. The writing process, how a story becomes a book Using the Six Traits in Teaching Writing (For teachers)