Her first book, The Sea Chest (Dial Books for Young Readers, September 2002) (ages 5-up), is set on a fictional midcoast Maine island and is based on the Maine Hendricks Head Light baby-in-the-sea chest legend. She lives in Buxton, Maine amid wild turkeys and black flies with her husband, Ken Cyll, her son, Chris Cyll, 19. Buzzeo was named the 1999 Maine Library Media Specialist of the Year. Currently, she is a Library Media Specialist at Longfellow School in Portland, Maine. She has worked as a high school and college English teacher, a public children's librarian, and a school library media specialist. She holds a Masters degree in English from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Rhode Island. Children's book author Toni Buzzeo is the creator of The Sea Chest and Dawdle Ducking, two picture books for young readers.Ä«uzzeo was raised in Dearborn, Michigan and moved to Maine 23 years ago.
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