Melinda Thielbar is a writer, teacher, statistician, and student of
the martial arts. Manga Math Mysteries, including The Kung Fu
Puzzle and The Secret Ghost is her first children's series.
In 2005, Melinda left SAS to finish a PhD in statistics. She was
awarded a VIGRE fellowship at North Carolina State University. This
fellowship is awarded to students likely to make a strong
contribution to education in the mathematics and statistics field.
Again, Melinda earned a fantastic reputation in the classroom. Her
statistics lectures and examples were known for their ability to
hold her students' interest--no easy task in a statistics for
non-majors class that's held at 8:00am.
Melinda lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, writer
Richard Dansky, and their three cats. She is currently working on
the research portion of her PhD. Having grown up in Jakarta,
Indonesia, Tintin Pantoja graduated from the School of Visual Arts
in 2005 with a BFA in Illustration and Cartooning. She has worked
on a self-published webcomic/graphic novel called Sevenplains,
Hamlet: The Manga Edition, three Manga Math books so far, and what
would have been a graphic novel adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
for Tokyopop. Right now Tintin splits her time between Manila,
Philippines, and Jakarta, Indonesia, with occasional visits to
Canada and the USA. Besides working for Lerner (which she enjoys),
Tintin has several fantasy graphic novels that she's trying to get
off the ground.
"The colorful manga-style artwork is energetic and well executed.
Fine additions where books such as Jimmy Gownley's 'Amelia Rules'
(S & S) and Jarrett J. Krosoczka's 'Lunch Lady' (Knopf) are
popular."
--School Library Journal-- (3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM)
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