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Liz is the illustrator of Fatty Legs: A True Story and The Unexpected Hero. She has also illustrated for book covers, magazines, newspapers, CD covers, posters, greeting cards, poetry books and for the school and library market. Liz is currently working on illustrating and writing her own picture books as well as a YA novel. When Liz was a little girl she drew and wrote nestled in an ancient oak tree of her grandmother's overgrown garden. A native of San Francisco, she graduated with a BFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University and University of San Francisco. She is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Art University, an MFA mentor, and conducts adult and children’s art workshops. Liz lives and works in Woodside, CA with her husband, two children, and an ever-growing assortment of pets. |
Fatty Legs: A True Story Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school, but he warns Margaret of the terrors of residential schools. At school Margaret soon encounters the Raven, a black-cloaked nun with a hooked nose and bony fingers that resemble claws. In the face of the Raven's cruelty, Margaret gives her a lesson in the power of human dignity. |
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