About the Author:
Susan Meissner is the critically-acclaimed author of 27 novels for adults and two children’s books. Her engaging novels feature memorable characters facing unique and complex circumstances, often against a backdrop of historical significance. A multi-award-winning author, her books have earned starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist. More than a million of her books are in the hands of readers worldwide.
She was born and raised in San Diego, California, but spent some of her adult life living in Minnesota as well as in England and Germany, before returning home to southern California in 2007. Susan attended Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
Prior to her writing career, she was a managing editor of a weekly newspaper in southwestern Minnesota. She enjoys teaching workshops on writing, spending time with her family, reading great books and traveling. Susan now makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband Bob (a retired chaplain in the Air Force Reserves) and their yellow lab, Winston.
About To Mimi’s House We Go:
Join bestselling author Susan Meissner and other “Mimis” in this Christmas-season poem inspired by the traditional holiday traveling song “Over the River and Through the Woods.” Modern families find their way to grandmother’s house using a variety of vehicles to celebrate with Mimis, Omas, Gigis, and Nanas.
This sweet Christmas story
- is for boys and girls 4 to 8 years old and grandmothers of all names and types;
- explores the different modern modes of transport used to take Christmas journeys;
- features rhyming text resembling traditional carols and folksongs; and
- celebrates the unique ways families celebrate Christmas while showing the common threads of food, family, and love in them all.
To Mimi’s House We Go combines the magic of Christmastime with sweet memories of time with Grandma in an adventurous romp through country and city, from coast to coast.
Author visits:
Author visits with Erin are available via Adventures by the Book HERE!