Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
This historical novel set in the 1800s poses a challenging question: how much is a child worth when differently abled or orphaned? Eleven-year-old Nathaniel “Nate” Peale helps his parents Gabriel and Mary Eva to farm their land in Nebraska. He…
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Janet Ruth Heller’s picture book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 4th edition 2016), is mentioned in the article “Books a 1-Year-Old Boy Would Enjoy to Read.” The author is Jacob Jacobowitz, and the article is…
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Janet Ruth Heller is quoted in the article “Body shaming can create lifelong problems, but who’s doing it may surprise you” by Lois M. Collins, published on April 22, 2018 on Deseret News.