Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Jacqueline Woodson, winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, is the author of Newbery Honor winners Feathers and Show Way, Miracle’s Boys (recipient of a Coretta Scott King Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize), Locomotion and Hush (both National Book Award finalists), among many others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Human rights campaigner and British author Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person. Her first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, was a Book Sense Top Ten Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, received five starred reviews.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
ANN M. MARTIN is the author of the Baby-sitters club and Main Street series; the novels Belle Teal, A Corner of the Universe (winner of the Newbery Honor), Here Today, and On Christmas Eve, as well as the Doll People novels (written with Laura Godwin and illustrated by Brian Selznick); and the novels P. S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More, written with Paula Danziger. Ann lives in upstate New York with her beloved dog, Sadie, whose mother was a stray, and several rescued cats.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Award-winning New Zealand author Kathleen De Goldi has written both short stories and young adult novels. De Goldi was also the 2001 New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Canadian children’s author and former seventh-grade English teacher, Gordon Korman, now lives on Long Island, NY and has written more than 55 children’s books. Check out his website www.gordonkorman.com for more fun information.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of 18 critically and popularly acclaimed teen and middle-grade novels. She has won the ALA Best Books for Young Adults award, an International Reading Association Children's Book Award,. and the Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Readers. A graduate of Miami University (of Ohio), she worked for several years as a reporter for The Indianapolis News. She also taught at the Danville (Illinois) Area Community College. She lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Skellig, my first children's novel, came out of the blue, as if it had been waiting a long time to be told. It seemed to write itself…. –David Almond.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Tim Tharp lives in Oklahoma where he writes novels and teaches in the Humanities Department at Rose State College. In addition to earning a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.F.A. from Brown University, Tim Tharp has been a factory hand, construction laborer, psychiatric aid, long-distance hitchhiker, and record store clerk. His first novel, Falling Dark (Milkweed Press), was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Knights of the Hill Country (Knopf Books for Young Readers) is his first novel for young adults and was named to the American Library Association's Best Books of 2007 list. The Spectacular Now was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.
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