Children's author and storyteller Celia Barker Lottridge discovered her gift for creating tales with her family in Iowa. She received her M. A. from Columbia University.
Lottridge worked as a child's librarian, and was also a buyer for the Children's Bookstore in Toronto. She is a member of the Storytellers School of Toronto, and the director of the Mother Goose Program.
Lottridge has written "Ten Small Tales" and "Ticket to Curlew," which won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and was named the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children.
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