About the Author
Author Edward Zrudlo explains his background and why he wrote this series.

Even before my international teaching career began, I moved a lot. Because my father was transferred to France, my first years of schooling took place there. Although the rest of my education occurred in Canada, it wasn’t in any single province. As a result, growing up was a cycle of making and leaving friends and the challenge of being accepted in new schools in new places. Life is hard, filled with many tests, but full of many joys. I think my itinerant life helped shape my views about the importance of relationships and the ongoing thrill of learning something new. Socializing with friends new and old and learning new things remain my greatest pleasures.

At graduate school, I wrote a story which years later became my first YA novel, Camellia the Bald. By the time it was published, I had been an English teacher at an IB school for over ten years and a few years into my time teaching in America. I later moved to South Korea to teach and manage an English immersion program for middle schoolers. Following that, I went to India to teach English in an IB school there. I returned to South Korea to work in elementary schools and write the PYP Readers Series. I’m now the principal of a K-12 international school in Seoul.

Why did I write these stories? To make stories that I, as a student, would want to read in school, and I, as a teacher, would want to teach. I wanted to make stories about the fun of learning new things with kids from around the world who face the issue of getting along with each other as they acquire new knowledge in surprising ways.

Edward Zrudlo

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  • I found them interesting and I think kids would, too. The characters are realistically portrayed with believable dialogue in situations a real kid could find himself in.
  • - J. McCracken, OCSB Director of Education (Retired), Ottawa, Canada
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