REBECCA KRAFT RECTOR
I am the author of more than thirty fiction and nonfiction books for children. I’ve lived in Maryland, Georgia, Florida, and Virginia.
I’m a twin and the oldest of four children. For as long as I can remember, I loved reading and writing stories and poems. So, it’s no surprise that I became a librarian and writer. But I’ve also worked as a cleaner, babysitter, shampoo girl, filer, typist, reading and study skills teacher, and elementary school network manager.
I love animals, especially cats and horses. My cats Ollie and Opal keep me company while I write. I don’t care for coffee, so my writing is fueled by dark chocolate chips, often eaten on graham crackers.
SOME OF MY INTERVIEWS
My books and other writings
SQUISH SQUASH SQUISHED (PENGUIN/RANDOM HOUSE)
LITTLE RED AND THE BIG BAD EDITOR (ALADDIN/SIMON & SCHUSTER)
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (Scholastic, 2022)
CONSTITUTION WRITERS (Social Studies School Service, 2020)
LET’S LEARN ABOUT SPACE series, 8 titles (Enslow, 2020)
LET’S LEARN ABOUT MATTER series, 6 titles (Enslow, 2020)
SHAWN MENDES: SINGER-SONGWRITER (Enslow, 2019)
INVESTIGATING BIODIVERSITY: ZOOM IN ON REPTILES (Enslow, 2019)
LOOKING TO THE STARS AND BEYOND (Twig World, 2019)
SCULPTING LANDSCAPES (Twig World, 2019)
AMAZING ANIMAL SENSES (Twig World, 2019)
LET’S FIND OUT! WHERE PLANTS GROW (Rosen, 2018)
NATURAL WONDERS: AMAZON RAINFOREST (Focus Readers, 2018)
NATURAL WONDERS: GRAND CANYON (Focus Readers, 2018)
NATURAL WONDERS: GREAT BARRIER REEF (Focus Readers, 2018)
NATURAL WONDERS: SAHARA DESERT (Focus Readers, 2018)
JUST SUPER (Sundance, 2017)
LONG SHOT (Sundance, 2017)
NEWS BREAKERS (Sundance, 2017)
PASSAGE TO ANOTHER WORLD (Sundance, 2017)
UNDER CONTROL (Sundance, 2017)
ESSENTIAL LITERARY GENRES: DRAMA (ABDO, 2016)
EARLY RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS (Rosen, 2016)
ALAN TURING (Rosen, 2016)
CONRAD TO THE RESCUE (Mondo, 2015)
TRIA AND THE GREAT STAR RESCUE (Random House/Delacorte)
“Little Miss Perfect and Me” is a short story published in THE KINGFISHER BOOK OF HORSE AND PONY STORIES.
I’ve also written many stories, articles, and poems for children’s magazines.
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