Barbara Seuling was born in Brooklyn on July 22nd. Before the writing bug bit her she did many different jobs such as sewing quilts for money while in college, answering phones at the 1964 World's Fair, and finally, getting a job at Dell Publishing Company. She helped launch the Yearling paperback imprint, and workd as an editor at Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers and J.B. Lippincott Co. Later, she taught at the Bank Street College of Education, the Writer's Voice, and at the Institute of Children's Literature.

An editor came to Barbara and asked if she would collect freaky facts for him and the idea of Freaky Friday was born. Freaky Friday was Barbara's first book. The book that Barbara is most famous for is How to Write a Children's Book and Get It Published.

Barbara Seuling has written more than fifty books and still has time for a regular column in Once Upon a Time, a magazine we all know! Barbara has three different classes going, on-line, in New York, and in Vermont. She has two new books soon to come out from Holiday House: From Head To Toe: The Amazing Human Body and How It Works, and Flick A Switch: How Electricity Gets to Your House.