Helen Caswell is a prolific writer/illustrator who specializes in stories for children. During 1997 she served as Artist in Residence at the Franciscan Life Development Center near Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to books, her work appears in churches and hospitals and is represented in galleries on both coasts. Her latest work for Abingdon Press was as the illustrator of A Child's Life of Jesus by Fulton Oursler. Mrs. Caswell lives on a farm in Sebastopol, California.