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Just a Seedling
Lulu Edge lives among the emerald corn fields of Iowa and has been a college instructor for 16 years teaching anthropology, sociology, and East Asian history courses. She is passionate about teaching and loves learning about new subjects and ways that different people around the world have adapted and live. If it were possible, Lulu would go to school and be a student the rest of her life! Many of Lulu’s poems and stories are about her travels, her daughter’s adventures growing up and her furry family of 3 dogs and 5 cats.
Author Lulu Edge's storytelling was inspired early on by her grandfather, an electronic engineer with Hewlett-Packard. Lulu's grandparents moved to Tokyo in 1970 for work with the company, and her grandparents would send her Japanese toys and trinkets from across the popple seas. At four years old, she even packed her pink Barbie suitcase and wandered bumfuzzled through her Ohio neighborhood in search of Japan!
Celebrating our Amazing Planet
These experiences motivated Lulu to become a cultural anthropologist specializing in East Asian cultures, and as a young adult she was able to travel extensively throughout the world. Living in Japan and Korea, she braved monsoons, leeches, banana spiders and giant fruit bats.
Brainstorming & Using Your Noodle
Most of Lulu's early reader books are inspired by her two imaginative children, travels, and pets--Cats Don't Take Baths, a delightful, illustrated picture book story was motivated by her cat-loving and gubbin daughters when they were young children. Her books are interspersed with anthropological wisdom and spiritual themes from teaching and life journeys.
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Fun-tastic Feats & Frippery
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When she isn't going on adventures with her daughters or snuggling her cats and dogs, Lulu is pursuing her Doctor of Education in Global Health. Lulu is a flibbertigibbet person and loves to meet new people in her community and from around the world. She currently lives with her three dogs and, of course, five cats.
Fun Facts about
Lulu Edge
Favorite Saying:
"Anthropology makes the world safe for differences" -Ruth Benedict
What she has learned from her pets:
Be happy everyday just because
Snuggles are the best medicine
Leftovers taste awesome
Places she would like to visit:
Easter Island
The Island of Crete
Cairo, Egypt
Fun words she's learned:
Popple: choppy waters
Bumfuzzled: confused or lost
Waggish: humorous and playful
Gubbins: silly
Frippery: ornamental and frivolous
Flibbertigibbet: talkative
Foods she has tried:
Crickets
Frog Legs
Chicken Feet
Alligator
