Maryann N. Weidt celebrates her birthday on May 5th. She was born in Hutchinson, Minnesota and grew up on a farm where her Daddy Played Music for the Cows. Maryann remembers her childhood with fondness. She enjoyed going to school in Silver Lake. Maryann holds a Masters of Library Science from the College of St. Catherine in Saint Paul. She is the proud mother of three adult children, two boys and one girl. Maryann and her husband live in Minnesota, in the Twin Cities, where Maryann is the head librarian at a suburban library. In addition to her picture book, which was just reissued in paperback, she is also the author of many fine biographies, including the Dr. Seuss biography, Oh, the Places He Went (illustrated by Kerry Maguire), Voice of Freedom, a Story about Frederick Douglass, and Mr. Blue Jeans: a Story About Levi Strauss.

Happy birthday, Maryann! You will always be our Queen of the May.

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