About Deb
Deb Lund is a picture book author best known for her celebrated dinoseries. Deb taught for twenty years as a music and classroom teacher and elementary librarian, later creating and co-directing a small arts-based school. She has directed choirs, conducted workshops on writing, music, and environmental education, taught theater classes for kids, and led storytelling troupes and student book clubs. Her music and education background, along with her creativity, playfulness, and passion for kids and literacy, makes her a well-loved presenter at schools, libraries, and conferences. She actively supports writers, teachers, and students through her website and blogs, as well as in her popular continuing education courses for teachers.
Among the books Deb has written are Monsters on Machines, All Aboard the Dinotrain, Dinosailors, and Tell Me My Story, Mama. Wordplay, rollicking rhymes, quirky humor, and warmth are hallmarks of Deb’s writing. Additional picture books, a middle-grade novel, and a book about teaching writing to children are her current writing projects.
Deb is a northern Minnesota transplant to Washington state’s Whidbey Island, where she walks the beaches and forest trails, drinks tea with friends, reads, unicycles, sings, and creates stories. She lives with her musician husband Karl Olsen of “The Brothers Four,” their three children, Kaj (12), Sandra (10), and Jean (7) – who can be both tiring and inspiring – and a dog and cat duo, Ollie and Sparkle.
