

The text of The Secret of the Loons is structured as a dialogue between a mother loon and her baby loon. The above illustrations show the left (verso) sides of the open, two-page spreads, where the mother explains distinctive loon behavior.
Elsa is on the board of the High Peaks Artists Association and has received grants from the Essex County Arts Council for her painted-paper collage work, which celebrates the landscape and wildlife of the Adirondack Mountains.