Sheila Kelly Welch
Born: in Pennsylvania
Pen Name: Sheila Welch, Sheila K. Welch Connection to Illinois: Welch lives in Forreston. Biography: Sheila Kelley Welch is an author and illustrator. She went to Temple University and Majored in Fine Arts and earned a Master's Degree in Education. Art was always her passion and after heart surgery in 1981 she knew that if 'someday' was ever going to arrive, she'd better get busy. Her first short story was published in 1983. Since then her short stories, often accompanied by her illustrations, have appeared in a number of magazines including ''Cricket'', ''Children's Playmate'', ''Girls' Life'', ''The Friend'', ''Ladybug'', ''Cicada'', and ''Spider''. Several of her short stories have been published in language arts textbooks. She has also written and/or illustrated fourteen books for children of various ages.
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Selected Titles
| A horse for all seasons : ISBN: 1563974150 OCLC: 31908929 Boyds Mills Press ; Honesdale, Pa. : 1994. A collection of seasonal horse stories centered around contemporary children and the difficulties they encounter in their everyday lives. |
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A horse for all seasons : ISBN: 1590780353 OCLC: 50922538 Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, Penn. : 2002. A collection of twelve realistic tales centered around contemporary children and the difficulties they encounter in their everyday lives, lives in which horses happen to be key players. |
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Blue Ridge / ISBN: 0961187271 OCLC: 31076791 Our Child Press, Wayne, Pa. : ©1995. Twelve-year old Denny, newly arrived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia with his father, and coping with his mother's death as well as a new environment, discovers a friend in the woods. |
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Don't call me Marda / ISBN: 0961187239 OCLC: 20933833 Our Child Press, Wayne, Pa. : ©1990. Marsha feels apprehensive about her parents' plans to adopt a retarded child. |
| Horses of the air ISBN: 0733910955 OCLC: 222292817 Longman, South Melbourne : 1999. |
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Horses of the air / ISBN: 0673757560 OCLC: 43575925 CelebrationPress, Glenview, Ill. : ©1996. |
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Is that your sister? : ISBN: 0961187263 OCLC: 23940310 Our Child Press, Wayne, Pa. : ©1992. An adopted six-year-old girl tells about adoption and how she and her adopted sister feel about it. |
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Land of another sun / ISBN: 0963881922 OCLC: 34432075 Shadow Play Press, Forreston, Ill. : ©1995. April and Geremy ride in a magic bubble to make-believe lands. |
| Lazy bones Jones ISBN: 0007167733 OCLC: 56539935 HarperCollins, London : 2003, ©1999. |
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Leaping Lena / ISBN: 0763564117 OCLC: 50815063 Rigby, Crystal Lake, Ill. : 2000. Nico and his clever little pony, Lena, have to help his family keep their farm. |
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Little Prince Know-It-All / ISBN: 0307263010 OCLC: 38593497 Golden Books, New York : ©1998. Prince Caleb triumphs over his spoiled brother Omar when his parrot becomes the cleverest pet in the kingdom. |
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Sean's war ISBN: 9780963881953 OCLC: 38841437 ShadowPlay Press, Forreston, Ill. : ©1997. Young Sean Callahan struggles to understand the conflict between his gentle immigrant stepmother and his gruff frontier father as northwestern Illinois erupts into war between the white settlers and the Sauk-Fox Indians led by their warrior chief Black Hawk. |
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Something in the air / ISBN: 1893516032 OCLC: 70062821 Our Child Press, Philadelphia, PA : ©2005. When Ben, an abandoned puppy, is adopted by Mama Cat, he and his kitten sisters learn what being a family really means: sticking together when the going gets tough. |
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The shadowed unicorn ISBN: 9781450269919 OCLC: 1057813827 When their father dies suddenly, twelve-year-old twins Brendan and Nick, along with their mother and older sister Ami, move to an isolated old farm in the country, where the twins find themselves pulled into Ami's obsession with capturing a unicorn. |
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The shadowed unicorn / ISBN: 0812628950 OCLC: 42934569 Front Street/Cricket Books, Chicago : 2000. When their father dies suddenly, twelve-year-old twins Brendan and Nick, along with their mother and older sister Ami, move to an isolated old farm in the country, where the twins find themselves pulled into Ami's obsession with capturing a unicorn. |
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Waiting to forget / ISBN: 1608981150 OCLC: 764432984 Namelos, East Hampton, N.H. : ©2011. T.J. and his sister, Angela, learn how to move forward and be happy while in foster care. |