![]() Through the project, she helped collect, translate, and publish folk stories from each of the different ethnic groups living in Ethiopia. Thirty years later, this love affair with Ethiopia would lead Laird to head the Ethiopian Story Project from 1997 to 2001. She wrote them for her Ethiopian students because there were few reading materials available to them. She fell in love with Ethiopia while teaching, and some of her first publications were collections of Ethiopian stories. It was her time in Ethiopia that would lead her to write specifically for children. However, she has been a writer since she was a child, and today, she is a full-time writer of mainly children’s books. She has worked in education, first as a teacher’s aide in Malaysia and later as a trained teacher in both Ethiopia and Britain. ![]() She later lived in the Middle East, Africa, and India before settling down with her husband in Britain. Elizabeth laird grew up in Britain after moving from New Zealand as a child. ![]()
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