| Karlin Maria Roberts |
| October Moon on Lizard Ridge by Karlin Maria Roberts Look at the sky! The big, bright October Moon is here! Lizard Ridge becomes an exciting place. The red apples are ripe. Rosalind and Maria Raccoon have been checking the color of the red apples all summer and waiting for this special night. While trying to pick the biggest apple on the tree top with Sapphire, a blue-tailed skink, Rosalind’s best friend, the excitement begins. Rosalind and Sapphire find themselves face to face with Hunter, a Black and Tan Coonhound and a boy on a 4 wheeler who lands in a pile of pine branches. They have to think fast since sharing, caring, and having friends is a natural way of life on the Ridge. What should they do? |
| Inspired by the fascination in their hundred acre forest, the writing of her first book, OCTOBER MOON ON LIZARD RIDGE was created. Children, who love animals and have vivid imaginations about what animals in the forest do every day, will love this story. After a lifelong career as an elementary school teacher of grades kindergarten through eighth, Karlin Maria Roberts is now retired. Karlin was born and raised as a city girl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received an Associate in Arts Degree from Keystone Junior College in LaPlume, Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Tampa in Florida. She was feature editor of the university newspaper and a member of Alpha Chi Omega during her college years. Karlin moved to Lexington to attend graduate school at the University of Kentucky and loved Kentucky so much that it became her new home. She is now a country girl and lives on a farm with her husband, Jim and their dog Monte, a Great Pyrenees. They raise Black Angus cattle and tobacco on the farm for a hobby. Her son lives on the other end of the farm with his wife and their two sons so it is wonderful to have family and grandsons close by. Karlin’ s summers are spent in the water on their PWC and in their boat “Muddy Paws”, named after the dog! Guess why? When she is not on the lake, Karlin enjoys playing her classical guitar, quilting, training and showing her dog Monte, knitting, scrapbooking, exercising and going to water aerobics. *Photo: courtesy of Extreme Styles, Mt. Sterling, KY |
