![]() For years she visited her father in Michigan during the summer months, riding horses and exploring in the woods. After three years, they moved once more to Oakland, California, where Polacco presently lives. For a time, they lived close to each other and remained friends, but when Polacco was six, her mother took a teaching job in Florida. Polacco was born in Lansing, Michigan, in 1944, and when she was three, her parents divorced. Ranging from her great-grandmother's experiences as a newly arrived Russian immigrant to her personal exasperation with her older brother, Polacco's stories are always accompanied by vivid, detailed pictures that capture characters' expressions and gestures as well as ethnic decoration and patterns. Patricia Polacco writes and illustrates picture books for young children, drawing extensively from her family's stories and her own life adventures. ![]() ![]() and Mary Ellen Gaw Barber married Enzo Mario Polacco, 1979 children: Traci, Steven ![]()
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