Author, Poet, Educator, Artist. She is best known for the sixteen children's book that she wrote from 1918 to 1967, yet she wore many other hats during her lifetime. Her books contained short stories and poems on the subject of nature and wildlife such as “Grandfather Frost” in 1933, and “Seaside Tales" and "Falling Snowflakes" in 1937. She translated for children other authors’ books into her native language. She was born the youngest in a family of eight children. Her father was Stanislav Felix Huge, a writer in a time when his Lithuanian culture was being eradicated. For political reasons, her father and one brother were sent to Siberia for years. Her mother, Liudvika Didžiuliene, was a writer from Latvia. Aldona started writing poems as a child. In 1905, she wrote a poem that became a revolutionary song, “Friends and Courage, Do Not Be Afraid", which became one of the most popular songs of that era. All of her other poems written before 1915 were lost in a house fire. From an early age, Aldona always helped other children to read and write in the Lithuanian language. After graduating from high school, she taught in several private schools while busy in her evenings teaching adults, giving lectures, and performing plays. During World War I, she worked as an interpreter while nursing the wounded. Supporting the revolution in Russia, she along with her mother and two sisters relocated to Russia in 1914. After she finished nursing school at University of St. Petersburg, she and a brother, who was a physician, worked with the Red Cross. She was the care giver of one of her siblings who was chronically ill from a childhood injury. By 1915, the family relocated to Crimea. In 1917, she attended class at the University of Moscow studying history and psychology. In 1919, she returned to Lithuania to write for a magazine and later taught school again. She married a teacher, Antanas Kazanavicius, in 1920. In 1923, she and her husband went to Crimea to help her parents return to Lithuania. During the year’s delay in the relocation, she studied art at a Russian studio. After returning to Lithuania in 1924, she taught at Panevezys Lithuanian Teachers Seminary, attended classes at Juozas Zikaro art studio, and worked for the teachers union. In 1926, she lost her teaching position for alleged activities against the Communist Party. By 1927, both of her parents had died within two years of each other. Fifty years later, their family home became a museum to honor her and the parents as writers. For income, she started painting full-time but eventually resumed teaching. Her husband died in 1940. From 1935 to 1941, she taught school in Vilnius and worked with the People’s Commission of Education. During World War II, she was detained by the Nazi Military causing a break in her writing from 1938 to 1950. From 1946 to 1957, she was employed at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Central Library until retiring. After retiring, she lived with a niece in Vilnius until she died. She is on the "Famous Lithuanian Women of the 20th Century" list. In the early years, she was published under the surname "Griežionėlėse". Her paintings, "The Image of Crimea" and "Landscapes", are on display at the Kaunas University of Technology in the Faculty of Social Sciences Library. In 2013, one of her paintings sold at auction for just over $600. A collection of short stories, "Seaside Tales", was released in 1976 after her death.