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name: Carol Antoinette Peacock
about: I grew up in Maryland, in a suburb outside of Washington D.C. I am the oldest of three children in a family who loved books. I wanted to be a writer since I was eleven. Decades later, I am now a practicing psychologist and author of six books. I earned a BA at Cornell University, a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Psychology at Boston College.My first book, Hand Me Down Dreams (Schocken, 1981), was praised in the New York Times Book Review and was optioned for CBS film rights. The book is an account of my work with four troubled adolescent girls who are able to break family patterns and create new lives for themselves.Next, I wrote Sugar Was My Best Food: Diabetes and Me (Whitman, 1998), the story of how a boy I grew up in Maryland, in a suburb outside of Washington D.C. I am the oldest of three children in a family who loved books. I wanted to be a writer since I was eleven. Decades later, I am now a practicing psychologist and author of six books. I earned a BA at Cornell University, a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Psychology at Boston College.My first book, Hand Me Down Dreams (Schocken, 1981), was praised in the New York Times Book Review and was optioned for CBS film rights. The book is an account of my work with four troubled adolescent girls who are able to break family patterns and create new lives for themselves.Next, I wrote Sugar Was My Best Food: Diabetes and Me (Whitman, 1998), the story of how a boy copes with diabetes. This book was featured on "Good Morning America," National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," People Magazine, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. It earned a Parent's Choice Approved Commendation and was listed in Bank Street College's "Best of Children's Books 1999," and the American Association of the Advancement of Science's "Best Science Books for Children."My children's picture book, Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story (Whitman, 2000) was named a 2001 Notable Social Trade Book for Young People. Mommy Far is the story of how my own adopted daughter confronts having two mothers.Pilgrim Cat(Whitman 2004) is an historical fiction picture book about a cat that sailed on the Mayflower and then settles into life at Plimoth Plantation. The story was featured on The Discovery Channel's "Animal Planet" series in February 2011. My middle grade nonfiction book, Death and Dying (Scholastic Library Press, 2004)is part of a mental health series for readers aged 10-13 and offers coping strategies for grief and loss.I've also written articles about my use of my dogs in psychotherapy. My pet therapy has been cited in The New York Times (8/23/86), Time Magazine (3/30/87) and The Boston Globe (12/16/88, 1/17/2002).I currently practices at Mt. Auburn Counseling Associates, where I specialize in treating children and families, along with her black Lab, Pepper, as her co-therapist. My latest book, Red Thread Sisters (Viking/Penguin, 2012) a middle grade novel, is the story of two friends, one who is adopted from a Chinese orphanage and promises to find her friend a family too. The book was awarded A Parents Choice Recommendation and cited as An Indiebound Kids' Next, Winter '12 Selection. I live outside of Boston with my husband, a history teacher with the Boston Public Schools. Her family includes her stepson, her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, 20, and her youngest daughter, Katherine, 19. My family also includes Pepper, four cats and two turtles. ...more