Between Two Worlds (31 page)

Peary with seamstresses on the
Roosevelt
(around 1908)

Huge thanks to Wendy Lamb and Dana Carey. Thanks to others at Wendy Lamb Books, assistants and interns, who provided critiques: Randi Abel, Shavon Bilis, Janea Brachfeld, Caroline Meckler, and Lindsay Wong. To the book’s excellent copy editor, Joy Simpkins. To Liza Pulitzer Voges.

To Donna Bergman, Sylvie Hossack, and Suzanne Williams for reading the manuscript first and asking for more, and to Peter Nelson for his generosity and his expertise in helping me smooth out the wrinkles.

To Diane Amison-Loring (“Sharp-Toothed”), Stephanie Cowell, Mary Cresse, Jane Mylum Gardner, Kathryn Mikesell Hornbein, Karen Landen, Dean Stahl, and Sanna Stanley for further help and encouragement.

To Kate Gartner for the handsome cover and book design.

To Sam Weber, for the striking cover art.

To Joe LeMonnier, for the lovely map.

To Silas Ayer and Kim Fairley for providing the images of Billy Bah.

Thanks and apologies to Navarana Sørensen: Any errors in Inuktun and the culture of the Polar Eskimos are my own!

Finally, to John Tait. It takes a lot to stay in the game of writing/publishing. He makes it possible.

Katherine Kirkpatrick is the author of seven previous fiction and nonfiction books, including
The Snow Baby
, a James Madison Book Award Honor Book and a
Booklist
Editors’ Choice and Top 10 Biography for Youth; and
Mysterious Bones
, a Golden Kite Honor Book for Non-fiction, an NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and a
School Library Journal
Best Book of the Year. Katherine lives in Seattle with her husband and two daughters. You can visit her online at
katherinekirkpatrick.com
.