The Trees of the Dancing Goats ( 1996) ISBN 2-3. I Can Hear The Sun: A Modern Myth ( 1996) ISBN 0-X. Aunt Chip And The Great Triple Creek Dam Affair ( 1996) ISBN 3-4. Babushka's Mother Goose ( 1995) ISBN 7-4. My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother ( 1994) ISBN 1-6. Picnic at Mudsock Meadow ( 1992) ISBN 1-4. August 18, 1979), is a chef and cooking instructor. Her third husband, Enzo Mario Polacco (m. Her second marriage, to Graeme L Blackman, ended in a divorce. She had two children, Traci and Steven, with her first husband. ( July 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Polacco resides in Union City, Michigan, on a property she purchased which was originally known as "The Plantation". She did not start writing and illustrating her first children's book until she was 41 years old. She wrote When Lightning Comes in a Jar as a tribute to her grandmother (referred to as "Babushka" in her books), and a cousin. Īt Oakland Technical High School, Polacco became friends with Frank Oz. Although her grandmother died in 1949, when Polacco was only five years old, she appears in several of Polacco's books. In junior high school, one of her teachers finally discovered that dyslexia was the reason for her lack of confidence. Polacco was discouraged in school and did not learn to read until she was nearly fourteen. She, her mother, and her brother went to live at her maternal grandmother's farm in Union City, Michigan, the setting of many of her stories. Her parents divorced when she was three years old. She was born in 1944 in Lansing, Michigan, the daughter of a teacher and a salesman turned talk show host. She is of Georgian, Russian and Ukrainian- Jewish descent on her mother's side and of Irish on her father's side. 
Falker is Polacco's retelling of this encounter and its outcome.
Polacco endured teasing and hid her disability until a school teacher recognized that she could not read and began to help her. Throughout her school years, Polacco struggled with reading but found relief by expressing herself through art. Patricia Barber Polacco (born July 11, 1944) is an American author and illustrator.
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