Favorite Food: .broiled chicken

Family:.two great daughters

Genus:.still under discussion

Species: .Human (so far)

Place of Origin: Texas

Habitat:  Spokane, Washington

Favorite Movie: .Jurassic Park: The Lost World

Favorite TV Show: .almost anything on the Discovery Channel.

Favorite Dinosaur: .Parasaurolophus

Favorite Sport: .Tennis

Exercise: .Hiking, snow skiing, tennis

Hobbies: .Paleo, the Internet, Painting, Travel

Distinguishing Features: .sense of humor, Kind heart, naughty streak

Kelly Milner Halls  was the Author of the Month on Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette Dino Dish from March 1-31, 1999

Vera Velociraptor's Very Vast, Verbose, Voracious Vocabulary 

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Kelly Milner Halls is a full-time freelance writer specializing in children's nonfiction. Hundreds of her articles have appeared in numerous publications including the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Denver Post, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,  the Spokesman-Review, Boys Life, Highlights for
Children, Guidepost for Kids, Guidepost for Teens, Teen PEOPLE, US Kids, Writer's Digest, Over the Back Fence, Wyoming Magazine and FamilyFun. 

Halls was a regular contributing editor at Dinosaurus Magazine and The Dino Times.   She writes a monthly column on children's writing for America Online's Writers Club and is the former editor of Kids Reads, America Online's grown-up guide to children's books (keywords: Kids Reads).  Her first book, Dino-Trekking (John Wiley & Sons) was selected as an American Bookseller "Pick of the List" science book in 1996. She has also written Kids Go! Denver (John Muir Publications), and 365 Afterschool Activities (PIL).  Her latest picture book, I Bought a Baby Chicken, will be published by Boyds Mills Press in 2000. Three other book proposals are in contractual negotiations. 

Halls freelance career has been profiled in both the Writers Market and the Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market.  And her bylined reports regularly appear in Writer's Digest Books publications. 

Halls lives in Colorado until February, when she'll move to Spokane, Washington --- with two daughters, one dogs, four cats, a hamster and a ferret.  

Books by Kelly Milner Halls (sometimes with others)
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