Jeanne Birdsall

Jeanne Birdsall is an American photographer and writer of children's books, best known for her five-volume series about the Penderwick family. The first book, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, won the 2005 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She was born in 1951, and The Penderwicks on Gardam Street carries the sisters' story on.