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Crystal Velasquez
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Crystal Velasquez is the author of Just Princesses, the Hunters of Chaos series, the Your Life, But... series (Your Life, But Better; Your Life, But Cooler; and Your Life, But Sweeter) and four books in the Maya & Miguel series--My Twin Brother/My Twin Sister, Neighborhood Friends, The Valentine Machine, and Paint the Town. She holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from Pennsylvania State University and is a graduate of the New York University Summer Publishing Institute. Currently an editor at Working Partners Ltd. and a freelance proofreader, she lives, writes, and obsessively takes personality quizzes...
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Hugh Lofting
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Hugh Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of children's literature. Lofting was born in Maidenhead, England, to English and Irish parents. His early education was at Mount St Mary's College in Sheffield, after which he went to the United States, completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He traveled widely as a civil engineer before enlisting in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative...
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