Patricia Polacco is an American author and illustrator, born July 11, 1944. Struggling to learn to read through her school years, she found relief in art, and her book Thank You, Mr. Falker retells how a teacher recognized she could not read and began to help her, after she had hidden the problem behind teasing. Polacco also wrote Mr. Lincoln's Way and The Lemonade Club, and her other titles include In Our Mothers' House, Junkyard Wonders, and An A From Miss Keller, which follows a girl named Annie as she works through the frustrations of communication.
