Mary Morton Cowan, Children's Author

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Welcome! I have a lot to share with you. I write books and magazine articles and stories for young readers.

Enjoy my latest adventure biography!

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Cyrus Field’s Big Dream: the Daring Effort to Lay the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

The riveting story of Cyrus Field’s dream to create instant communication between North America and Europe and his courage to pursue it, resulting in one of the greatest achievements of the nineteenth century.

(Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Publishing House, 2018)

"This is a winner!" a "rousing good story"

A NSTA Best STEM Book Best STEM Book symbol

A Junior Library Guild Selection

My earlier books are:

Take a look at a few of my magazine articles. There are nearly 100 of them!
One of my retold legends has been republished by Cricket Media as an eBook.

And two plays have been republished as Readers' Theater books.

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Site updated March 2022