Susan Katz is the Camp Fire Girl on the left in the photo, which is what she still looks like on the inside. On the outside, she's morphed into the author of eight children's books.

Her first book was a middle-grade novel, SNOWDROPS FOR COUSIN RUTH, winner of the Paterson Prize and a Publishers' Weekly Flying Start honor.

Her most recent books are THE PRESIDENT'S STUCK IN THE BATHTUB (Clarion Books, Feb., 2012), a Junior Library Guild selection, and the humorous science-fiction e-book, FLAT LIKE FRED. story of the boy who saved the Earth from alien tadpoles and the planet Bovine (where the cow who jumped over the moon landed) from its terrible mouse-elephant rampages.

Her picture book. OH, THEODORE! was an Oprah Pick, winner of a Utah Beehive Award and a Texas 2 x 2 Award, as well as a selection of the New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.

WHEN THE SHADBUSH BLOOMS, co-authored with Carla Messinger - the story of two Lenni Lenape girls living through the round of the seasons, one in modern times and one in historical times - was a finalist for a National Children's Choice Book award.

Currently she's working on the final stages of a new children's novel, THE UNKNOWN LAND, and a collection of poems about Theodore Roosevelt and his six children, ARCHIE AND QUENTIN, Poems of a White House Childhood.