Meet Chadwick and His Chesapeake Bay Friends.(When the financial situation gets worse during the Depres.) 2003 Mattero Did, Blindsided, The Journey Back and Cheating For The Chicken Man. Since then, she has written seven others: a Face First, Saving Grace, Red Kayak, What Mr.
In 1997, her first novel for older children, Autumn Journey, was published. Over the years, Cummings wrote several more picture books about animals in the Chesapeake Bay. Her first book, Chadwick The Crab, was published in 1986. Then, she began to wonder: what if there was a crab who didn't want to sleep all winter? What if there was a crab who had Big Dreams? Who wanted to be a star at the aquarium in Baltimore, so he wouldn't have to sleep all winter? It was just a silly idea, but that's how it all started. She couldn't believe people actually steamed and ate blue crabs! She began reading about those interesting critters and she learned that in winter, crabs burrow into the mud at the bottom of the Bay to sleep until spring. It was in Maryland that Cummings saw her first blue crab. In 1981, Cummings moved to Maryland where she became a magazine writer and editor for three years. Over the next ten years she worked for four different newspapers in four different states. After graduating from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in English literature, Cummings became a newspaper reporter. Priscilla had always thought she would follow in her father's footsteps and become a teacher, too, but in college she changed her mind because she enjoyed writing.
Because of financial hardships facing many small farmers, her father gave up his dream of being a farmer and became a chemistry and physics teacher instead. When she was ten, Priscilla spent the summer writing her first chapter book (about a horse, of course) and in high school she tried her hand at reporting for the school newspaper. She kept a diary, too, wrote to her grandmothers and, in third grade, joined a pen pal club through the Archie comic books. Cummings still remember taking one of these books in to her first grade teacher who put stickers on the cover. Often, she illustrated the tales and made them into little books. Priscilla began her writing career with stories about farm animals.
When she was ten, Priscilla spent the summer writing her first chapter book (about a horse, of course) and in high school she tried her hand at reporting for the school newspaper.īecause of financial hardships facing many small farmers, her father gave up his dream of being a farmer and became a chemistry and physics teacher instead.
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