Career
She has written more than 40 children"s books, as well as magazine stories, plays and educational materials. She is known particularly for The Truth about Truman School, a 2008 young adult title focusing on the subject of cyber bullying, and for My Mom"s Having a Baby (illustrated by Carol Thompson), which in 2011 appeared on the American Library Association"s list of most challenged books for its portrayal of conception and childbirth. Prior to becoming a children"s author, Butler worked for three years as a page at a library.
The family lives in Kirkland, Washington.
