As a child, Helen Elmira Waite occasionally visited her father's office. Once inside the door, she made a beeline for the typewriter. Perhaps in order to save his office equipment, he placed a typewriter under the Christmas tree the year she was four. It was at least third-hand, but never was a typewriter better loved.
She was also attracted by the curtains on a stage and the daters on the librarian's desk. By the time she was ten, Helen Waite decided to choose a career of writing plays on the typewriter and being a librarian. In this way, she could combine the three things that were most fascinating to her and read all the books in the library be. sides! So when she attended Columbia University she studied both library science and juvenile writing.
For many years Helen Waite was the librarian of the Junior Room of the Oradell Public Library but she now devotes most of her time to writing books for boys and girls.
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