Books and Teaching
Materials that Cover Many Different Writers
I currently carry books about all of these authors and hope to have a page featuring
each one, along with his/her works, soon. I will be adding these pages on a regular basis.
In the meantime, if you would like to have the information on a specific author biography,
just request it by e-mail.
Louisa May Alcott
/ Margaret Wise Brown / Betsy Byars /
Lewis Carroll / Beverly Cleary
Roald Dahl / Alice Dalgliesh / Tomie de Paola / Joni
Eareckson
Sid Fleischman /
Jean Fritz
Gail Gibbons /
Ruth Heller / Thomas
Locker /
Lois Lowry
Robert McCloskey / L.M. Montgomery
Katherine Paterson / Bill Peet / Patricia Polacco
Carl Sandburg
/
Dr. Seuss / William Shakespeare
Harriet Beecher Stowe / Marvin Terban
/ Corrie ten Boom / Mark Twain
Gertrude Chandler Warner / Laura Ingalls
Wilder
Phillis Wheatley / E.B. White
/ Laurence Yep and His Works
Poster Store for Children's
Authors
The Author Studies Handbook: Helping
Students Build Powerful Connections to Literature, by Laura Kotch and Leslie
Zackman. A Scholastic Professional Book. This photo-filled guide was designed
to help classroom teachers design complete cross-curricular units to help their students
study authors and respond to their books. A sample is given for a Katherine Paterson study
group and for a Read-Aloud study of Ed Young's works. There are many ideas for helping
students connect to authors and interact with their books and share their impressions with
others.159 pages. For teachers of grades K-8. $15.25-D
The Big Book of
Picture-Book Authors and Illustrators by James Preller. Scholastic
Professional Books, 2001. Includes updated selections from Meet the
Authors and Illustrators, Volumes One and Two. Contains 75 short and
lively read-aloud biographies that introduce favorite authors and illustrators
and help kids learn about the writing process. Each author sketch includes a
list of favorite titles and a related hands-on activity to challenge students
and encourage them to be creative. For grades K-3. 160 pages.
Some included authors and
illustrators are Anno, Teddy Arnold, Shonto Begay, Aliki, Norman Bridwell,
Ashley Bryan, Donald Crews, Bruce Degan, Lulu Delacre, Diane and Leo Dillon,
Mem Fox, Phoebe Gilmon, Paul Goble, Eloise Greenfield, Kevin Henkes, Gloria
Houston, Pat Hutchins, Trina Schart Hyman, Ezra Jack Keats, Karla Kuskin, Leo
Lionni, Jonathan London, James Marshall, Jean Marzollo, Emily Arnold
McCully, Angela Shelf Medearis, Robert Munsch, Mary Pope Osborne, Barbara
Park, Dave Pinkney, J. Brian Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, Jack Prelutsky,
Barbara Reid, Faith Ringgold, Joanne Ryder, Cynthia Rylant, Jan Scieszka,
Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Peter Sis, Lane Smith,
Peter Spier, William Steig, John Steptoe, Mark Teague, Chris Van Allsburg,
Bernard Waber, Kate Waters, Hans Wilhelm, Vera B. Williams, and Ed Young.
Updated authors and illustrators include
Jan Brett, Marc Brown, Eve Bunting, Molly Bhang, Eric Carle, Joanna Cole,
Barbara Cooney, Tomie dePaola, Lois Ehlert, Ruth Heller, Tony Johnston, Steven
Kellogg, Arnold Lobel, Bill martin, Jr., Robert McCloskey, Patricia Polacco,
Allen Say, Rosemary Wells, Jane Yolen, and Charlotte Zolotow. BTH-3281.
$15.26-D
Meet the Authors and Illustrators,
Volume I:60 Creators of Favorite Children's Books Talk About Their Work,
by Deborah Kovacs and James Preller. From the Scholastic Reference Library. The authors
and illustrators share thoughts about their lives and work. Related art and writing
activities are suggested to help students get some hands-on experience through tips or
quotes from the featured illustrators and authors. Authors covered in this book include
Beverly Cleary, E.B. White, Judy Blume, Joan Aiken, Lloyd Alexander, William
Armstrong, Betsy Byars, Roald Dahl, Paula Danziger, Eleanor Estes, Jean Fritz, Virginia
Hamilton, E.L. Konigsburg, Madeleine L'Engle, Jean Little, Lois Lowry, David Macaulay,
Patricia MacLachlan, Scott O'Dell, Katherine Paterson, Gary Paulsen, Lynne Reid Banks,
Elizabeth Speare, Mildred Taylor, Joanna Cole, Tomi dePaola,
Steven Kellogg, Arnold Lobel, Robert McCloskey. Jane Yolen, and many more. A list of
each author / illustrator's best-known books is also included. $17.95-D
Meet the Authors and Illustrators,
Volume II: 60 Creators of Favorite Children's Books Talk About Their Work,
by Deborah Kovacs and James Preller. From the Scholastic Reference Library. The authors
and illustrators share thoughts about their lives and work. Related art and writing
activities are suggested to help students get some hands-on experience through tips or
quotes from the featured illustrators and authors. Authors covered in this book include
Natalie Babbitt, Joan Blos, Jan Brett, Marc Brown, Eve Bunting, Barbara Cooney,
Lois
Ehlert, Sid Fleishmann, Russell Freedman, Jean Craighead George, Gail Gibbons, Patricia
Reilly Giff, Ruth Heller, Johanna Hurwitz, Tony Johnston, Bill Martin, Jr., Ann McGovern,
Phyllis Naylor, Joan Lowery Nixon, Patricia Polacco, Allen Say, Rosemary Wells, Laurence
Yep, Charlotte Zolotow and many more. A list of each author / illustrator's
best-known books is also included. $17.95-D
Short Plays for Building Fluency: Famous Americans by multiple
authors. Scholastic, 2008. Formerly published as Famous Americans, 22 Short
Plays for the Classroom. Help build students' reading fluency and build
awareness of important people in U.S. history through fact-based, original
plays about 22 famous Americans. These read-aloud biographical plays provide
kids with the repeated practice they need to read with speed, automaticity,
and expression-the key elements of fluency. Background information, discussion
questions, extension activities, and literature links round out this versatile
resource. Subjects of plays include Christopher Columbus, Ben Franklin, George
Washington, Phillis Wheatley, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, Abraham Lincoln,
Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, John Muir, Thomas Edison and Alexander
Graham Bell, George Washington Carver, Susan Picotte, Nellie Bly, The Wright
Brothers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Langston Hughes, Rosa Parks
and Martin Luther King, Jr, Jackie Robinson, Cesar Chavez, and Neil Armstrong.
For grades 4-8. BTH-4661. $17.99-D
When I Was
Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up by Mary Pope Osborne,
Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa
Mohr, Reeve Lindbergh, Avi, and Francesca Lia Block. Edited by Amy Ehrlich. In this book
ten award-winning authors tell stories based on their own childhood memories. Set in the
past, they show the reader how the experience of being a child changes through time while
much of it stays the same. Authors also share why they chose these particular memories to
write about, and what in their lives made them want to become writers. Book includes
photographs of authors. Hardcover. 159 pages. $14.39-D
Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Voice of Humanity in White America by
Henry Elliot. Part of the Voices for Freedom Abolitionist Heroes series by
Crabtree Publications. Guided Reading Level Y. For ages 10-13. She was
an active participant in aiding fugitive slaves, and the publication of her
anti-slavery novel focused the nation's attention on the inhumanity of
slavery. BTH-5403. $9.86-D
THE OTHER ALICE: THE STORY OF ALICE LIDDELL
AND ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Christian Björk and Inga-Karin Eriksson. Translated by Joan
Sandin. R&S Books, 1993, stated first edition. Hardcover red boards with
quarter cloth in dust jacket. . 94 pages. Endpapers
are colored, illustrated maps of Oxford. Illustrations are photos and drawings in both
color and B/W. This biography will delight any "Alice" fan, and the
illustrations and format will beckon any young reader old enough to enjoy the
"Alice" books. It will also give insight into the author of those stories and his
inspiration. Book measures about 8" x 10½." . BTH-4886. Originally
$18.00. Now $14.95-B
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