MEXICO — Vermont author Jessie Haas will visit the Meroby Elementary School  on Thursday and Friday, March 3 and 4 (snow dates March 7 and 8). The visit will include a presentation for parents and children from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Meroby.

Books will be available for sale and autographing during the evening by Farmington DDG Booksellers.

The author of over 35 books, including American Girl’s SAIGE series, Haas is best known for her children’s horse books, including early readers like the Bramble and Maggie series, picture books like “Sugaring,” and novels, including “Chase,” “Unbroken” and “Shaper.”

She has also written nonfiction for adults, including two town histories, “Revolutionary Westminster” and “Township Number One” and is currently editing Storey’s “Horselover’s Encyclopedia.”

Haas grew up on a small Vermont farm, where she rode horses and read all the time. While a senior at Wellesley College she sold her first children’s book. She and husband, Michael J. Daley, have lived for 30 years in the small off-grid home they built next door to the family farm in Westminster.

With her husband, she mentors a writing contest for fifth- and sixth-graders, and runs a long-standing children’s book critique group. Daley, also an author, will make presentations to prekindergarten and kindergarten during the school visit.

FMI: www.jessiehaas.com, www.michaeljdaley.com, Meroby Literacy Coach Eileen Pew, 207-364-3714, ext. 112.