Sidona MalzSidona Malz spent her childhood exploring the fields and forests of rural southern Minnesota along the Big Cobb River. She remembers hand-sewing tiny books together and drawing up stories from her imagination during those early years. She graduated fom Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota, with a bachelor of science in art education. Sidona currently lives in southern Minnesota and teaches art to many talented elementary students. She enjoys spending time with her family, watercolor painting, drawing, and hobby farming with her husband and their three sons. She has illustrated four of Gordon W. Fredrickson's books, If I Were a Farmer: Making Hay, Raising Little Duck, A Farm Country Haying, and Joey Meets the Ghost Elf and Other Stories. Read More Read Less