Kathleen Peterson

KATHLEEN PETERSON was born the third child of a third child to school￾teacher parents in Provo, Utah. Having been raised with the idea that the best education is travel she has lived in the Virgin Islands, Malaysia, and Hawaii and traveled throughout southeast Asia and Central and South America. As an artist she is continually learning painting with oils and watercolors, illustrating books, making batiks, and building clay figures. She and her husband have four grown children and live on a farm in Spring City in Sanpete Valley, Utah, with two mules, eight free-range chickens, and Maggie the Dog. She paints landscapes, architecture, and people, using oils, watercolors, pastels, and batik. Kathy also enjoys illustrating books and publications. Books include A World of Faith by Peggy Fletcher Stack, featuring twenty-eight world religions; The Stones of the Temple by J. Frederic Voros, about the building of the Salt Lake Temple; seven books of fables by Carol Lynn Pearson including The Lesson, What Love Is, Will You Still Be My Daughter?, A Strong Man, Girlfriend!, The Gift, and A Sister; Koa’s Seed, a Hawaiian legend by Carolyn Han; Moon Mangoes by Lindy Shapiro; and Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Courageous Women from the Bible by Bethany Brady Spalding and McArthur Krishna.