Caralyn Buehner (edit name/settings)

Caralyn Buehner grew up in Salt Lake City, the youngest child in a family of bookworms. She remembers being read to as a child by her mother, and has very fond memories of some children named Sally, Dick and Jane, and seems to remember a dog named Spot. By the time she was in 6th grade, she had perfected the art of undetected nocturnal reading, and had written a chapter of a romance novel. She won state and national awards for her writing in her teenage years, but didn't plan to be an author.

Her marriage to illustrator Mark Buehner brought some changes. When Mark began illustrating children's books, he encouraged Caralyn to write. In the past decade they have collaborated on seven children's picture books, and eight children. Caralyn's writing has been honored with two Utah Children's Choice Awards, a CBC Children's Choice Award, Parent's Choice Award, an ALA Notable Book, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award.

Her favorite writing, however, is the chronicling of everyday events for herself and her children in journals. She believes that sharing our personal perspective is the most powerful and important writing we may do, and can make an "ordinary" life extraordinary.