David Almond
David Almond is the winner of the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award for Kit's Wilderness, which has also been named best book of the year by School Library Journal, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly. His first book for young readers, Skellig, is a ... [... more]
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Stephanie Calmenson
Stephanie Calmenson is the author of many acclaimed books for children. They have been called "marvelous" (Publishers Weekly), "lyrical" (School Library Journal), and "sweet, funny, and right on the mark" (ALA Booklist). Her [... more]
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Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld's books include Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?, Terrible Tyrannosaurs, and Dinosaur Babies, which School Library Journal said "will be welcomed with deserved delight by young dinophiles." She has also written Dinosaur ... [... more]
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Margaret Read MacDonald
Margaret Read MacDonald is a storyteller, author, folklorist, and children's librarian, whom School Library Journal has called "a grand dame of storytelling." Ms. MacDonald is the author of numerous books, including pickin' peas, illustrated by [... more]
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Jessie Haas
Jessie Haas is the author of numerous acclaimed books for young people, including Unbroken, which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, a Parent's Choice Gold Award winner, a Notable Trade Book in the Field of ... [... more]
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Sherryl Jordan
Sherryl Jordan is the author of several critically acclaimed and award-winning books, including The Hunting of the Last Dragon, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; The Raging Quiet, a School Library Journal Best Book and an ALA Top Ten Best Book ... [... more]
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Jeannie Baker
Jeannie Baker is the author-artist of a number of distinguished picture books. Window, the companion book to Home, was a School Library Journal Best Book, a Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, a Children's Book Council of Australia ... [... more]
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Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka is the illustrator of over forty books, including the 2006 Caldecott Medal winner The Hello, Goodbye Window. He is also the author and illustrator of Yo! Yes? (1993), a Caldecott Honor Book that was named by School Library Journal ... [... more]
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Jan Greenberg
Jan Greenberg's books have been named an ALA Notable Book, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a Booklist Editors' Choice, an IRA Teachers' Choice, and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book. Since childhood, Jan Greenberg's life has been ... [... more]
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Nneka Bennett
The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker "This impressive picture book will delight young readers as it gives a sense of this remarkable woman and the times in which she lived." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) Vision of Beauty Kathryn ... [... more]
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Betsy Byars
Betsy Byars is a Newbery Medal winner and a National Book Award winner. Her books have appeared on the best books lists of the American Library Association, School Library Journal, and American Bookseller, among others. When she was a young girl ... [... more]
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Henry Payne
Illus. in full color. A boy and his dog listen to the world around them. "Illustrations are big and simple; the text is in verse form."--School Library Journal. Young Jeremiah never noticed it before, but now he can't seem to think of anything . [... more]
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