You Can't Wallpaper My Igloo: Tales of Living and Teaching in the Alaskan Wilderness
Since her birth and childhood education in Brussels,Belgium, Katherine Norberg has spent most of her life teaching and writingabout children of all ages and backgrounds. Seventeen of her years were spent survivingthe wilderness of Alaska in and out of the classroom. The great contrast of herrecent years in Los Angeles since then has prompted her to reminisce about herexperiences In the North as she and her husband began their lives together. Asense of humor kept them both going when engines broke down, pipes froze,Christmas presents didn't arrive, and students had their own ideas abouteducation. Having published several articles in local papers and magazines,Katherine has decided to indulge her love of writing by putting everythingtogether in You Can't Wallpaper My Igloo hoping to preserve longlasting images of a rapidly vanishing way of life.