Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Hilary McKay

Born: June 12, 1959 (age 65)
Bio: Hilary McKay is a British writer of children's books. For her first novel, The Exiles, she won the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.
Known for:
- Saffy's Angel (2001)
- Indigo's star (2003)
- Permanent Rose (2005)
- Caddy ever after (2006)
- Caddy's World (2011)