Kathy-jo Wargin | Author Biography
Author Kathy-jo Wargin has earned national acclaim through award-winning children's classics such as Michigan's official state book, The Legend of Sleeping Bear, Children's Choice Award winner The Legend of the Loon, The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell, and many others. Kathy-jo enjoys writing about nature and its effect on all our lives, and is a frequent guest speaker throughout the country. She is also a faculty member of the Bear River Writers Workshop, sponsored by the University of Michigan. She lives in Petoskey, Michigan.
Author Residence
- Petoskey, MI
Books by Kathy-jo Wargin
- The American Reader
- B is for Badger: A Wisconsin Alphabet
- The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell
- I Spy With My Little Eye Minnesota
- The Legend of the Lady's Slipper
- The Legend of Leelanau
- The Legend of the Loon
- The Legend of Mackinac Island
- The Legend of the Petoskey Stone
- The Legend of Sleeping Bear
- The Legend of Minnesota
- The Legend of Old Abe
- The Legend of Wisconsin
- Look & See Michigan With Me
- M is for Melody: A Music Alphabet
- North Star Numbers: A Minnesota Number Book
- The Michigan Reader
- Prairie Numbers: An Illinois Number Book
- V is for Viking: A Minnesota Alphabet
- The Voyageur's Paddle
- Win One for the Gipper: America's Football Hero

