Katherine Paterson, winner of the two most prestigious international prizes for children — the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the ALMA Prize — was born in China to missionary parents and spent her early childhood there. She has written a great number of award-winning books for children, including Bridge to Terabithiaand Jacob Have I Loved, which won the Newberry Medal. When it was first published in 1983, Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdomwon the Parents' Choice Award and was named the NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies as well as one of the Child Study Association's Children's Books of the year. Her most recent book is Bread and Roses, Too. Katherine Paterson lives in Vermont.
