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About the Author & Illustrator:
Lettie Petrie has lived in Central New York since 1941. She loved being director of Camden, New York's public library, retiring in 1993 to devote her time to writing. Most of all, she loved the story hours she shared with the children.
Mrs. Petrie has published 4 children's books. Her family has enjoyed years of family fun in the Adirondacks, along the Erie Canal and of New York State. She has been active in Literacy Volunteer's of America's Literacy Tutor program and served as president of the Mid-York Library Advisory Council.
Sadly, Mrs. Petrie passed away October 16, 2003. Her stories will never be forgotten by her family, grandchildren and all of the children that she adored so much.
Beth Petrie lives on Gifford Lake in Westdale, New York with her husband, David (Lettie's son), and step-children, Brianne and Logan. Her inspiration for her drawings of mountain wildlife is their many trips to the Adirondacks and National Parks. She has illustrated three of Lettie's four children's books.
Beth will continue operating Petrie Press and Mrs. Petrie's publications and stories in honor of Lettie.
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Rosie Tell Me A Story - Adirondack Fairy Tales II
There is a wonderful place in the mountains where winding roads lead to a small settlement. In a clearing next to Stillwater's calm waters there is a Forest Ranger's cabin, and in the forest which surrounds this clearing a family of skunks live.
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Ferdie Tell Me A Story - Adirondack Fairy Tales II
High in the Adirondack Mountains Ferdie frog lives under a lily pad at Buttermilk Falls. Ferdie was born a tadpole. While he was a tadpole he could live only in the water. His arms and legs grew slowly out of his body and he lost his long tail. He still remembers the day he finally grew his legs and became a frog. At last he could hop out of the water and move around on the sunny bank of his stream. He was happy!
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Spike Tell Me A Story - Adirondack Fairy Tales II
Just outside of a little mountain village in the Adirondack Mountains there is a road leading farther north. It is a narrow road that has many sharp dips and hills as it winds its way to Woodgate settlement. There is turns again torward the high peaks.
In the fragrant forest that speads on either side of this road, a small porcupine called Spike was born one spring.
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