My Story
Author Katherine Haas was born in 1937 in Germany. Shortly thereafter, her family moved first to Italy, then to China and, when Katherine was 11, to the United States. Adjusting to new languages and cultures was challenging, and often discouraging. Katherine hopes readers of this book will never be ashamed to be different or an outsider, as she was. She loved raising three daughters with her husband Ray, teaching third and fourth graders for 44 years, and banding birds. Katherine lives in Maryland with her second husband, Robert Feldmann, who found her as a merry widow in 2014. She spends her retirement having fun learning new languages.
My Book
Katherine Haas came to the United States on a boat, at the young age of eleven. The next few decades unfolded a lifetime of adventure as this young Chinese-German woman navigated identity, culture, and politics in a world different from the one she was raised in.
Little Jade is Katherine's whimsical meditation on a life well lived. It seeks to answer questions around what makes us who we are, as she meanders through the valleys and troughs of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
©Katherine Haas
Selected for the 2025
Children's Book Council
in the Young Adult (grades 9-12) category.
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Book TALKS
Katherine is available for either
live or virtual book talks with your group and with book clubs that are reading Little Jade.
Book Talk
South County Senior Center
27 Stephen’s Lane
Edgewater, MD
Thursday September 4, 2025
10-11:30 am
Little Jade is available to purchase at Park Books in Severna Park and Old Fox Books in Annapolis, or it can be ordered through Barnes & Noble or Amazon.
Bring your copy for Katherine to sign..