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About Ruth
"I began telling stories when I
was a child.
My favorite story to tell was that I was
adopted and really a princess!"
 Ruth
Willms has always loved to read and make up stories.
As a child and teenager, Ruth entertained her sisters with
stories at nighttime, when they were supposed to be sleeping. Her favorite story
to tell was of her being adopted and then finding out that she was really a
princess.
Ruth was born and grew up in the small municipality of Aldergrove, in beautiful
British Columbia’s Fraser Valley . She inherited her love for reading and
storytelling from her father, an enthusiastic story teller who wrote for
periodicals and magazines.
"Growing up in a large family of
fourteen siblings -
eight girls and six boys - gave me lots to write about.
There was always something exciting going on!"
While enrolled with The Institute of Children’s Literature
in Redding Ridge, Connecticut, U.S.A., Ruth was influenced by and studied under
several authors, including Arnold Madison, Lee Wyndham, Alvin Tresselt and Ron
Roy.
For a few years she wrote short stories for children's
magazines. Then her dreams of being an author were put on hold while she helped
her husband Ed run a construction company.
Her love for children eventually led her to return
to college where she enrolled in Early Childhood Education and began teaching
Preschool. While teaching Preschool and later operating a dayhome, she revived
her role of a story teller.
"My book,
The Lion Tree, began as a bedtime story I told
my grandchildren - the real Darian and Cassidy."
As her grandchildren, Darian and Cassidy, began elementary
school, Ruth was challenged to create more intriguing, on-going stories. The
bedtime stories began to revolve around her imaginary Lion Tree. Eventually,
these stories became the basis of her book, The Lion Tree.
The Lion Tree, released in 2007, is a
Christian children's fantasy story. Ruth lives in Calgary, Alberta with
her husband Ed.
Ruth is also co-owner
WAHM-Articles.com,
a website that helps moms work from home.
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