Ursula Dubosarsky is an award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults. About The Golden Day, her first book with Candlewick Press, she says, âThe little girls watch, wonder, respond, change, and growâand then theyâre gone, forever. This element of the story, I suppose, is at least partly autobiographical. But, as I sayâall of our teachers come home safe and sound in the end.â Ursula Dubosarsky lives in Australia.