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Deborah Hopkinson and YOU
Deborah Hopkinson
ISBN: 1-59158-278-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-278-6
112 pages
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 10/30/2007
List Price: $35.00 (UK Sterling Price: £24.95)
Discount Price: $17.50 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects:
Series Title: The Author and YOU
Description: Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson grew up in Massachusetts and after college moved to Hawaii where she worked as a college development administrator while nurturing her writing career. In this 9th book of the Author and YOU series, Hopkinson shares her curiosity and the manner in which that curiosity leads to investigation and research and then to her many fiction and nonfiction stories. The author discusses each of her books, providing the back story, the impetus for the book, and the research activities that brought each of the stories to young readers. The particular emphasis of this book is the writing of books for young readers within a historical context and how to use primary source documents in that effort. The author has a well-developed Web site with lesson plans for her books already in place. Her books are particularly valuable in school libraries as many are set in a historical context. She also has several biographies in her portfolio and is well known in that context to school librarians. Grades K-6.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by Sharon Coatney and Sharron L. McElmeel
    Part One: So Many Stories to Tell - Meet Deborah Hopkinson
    Chapter 1: Nose in a Book
    Chapter 2: History Must be Seen: Writing about the Past
    Chapter 3: An Author's Process: Writing and Revision
    Part Two: So Many Worlds to Explore: Discover Deborah Hopkinson's Books
    Chapter 4: The Underground Railroad and the Civil War
    Chapter 5: Windows to the Past: Historical Fiction Picture Books
    Chapter 6: Young People in the Tumult of History
    :Chapter 7: Real People, Real Lives
    Chapter 8: Bluebirds in the Garden: Two Picture Books Celebrating the
    Chapter 9: Biographies of Memorable People
    Appendices
    Bibliography and Awards
    Index
    About the Author
About the Author: Deborah Hopkinson is the author of numerous award-winning books for children, including Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, winner of the International Reading Association Award, A Band of Angels, winner of the Golden Kite Award, Under the Quilt of Night, winner of the Washington State Book Award, Girl Wonder, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award and a Jane Addams Peace Award Honor Book, and Shutting out the Sky, an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book, a Jane Addams Peace Award Honor Book, and a James Madison Book Award Honor. Deborah Hopkinson lives in Corvallis, Oregon, where she serves as director of foundation relations for the Oregon State University Foundation.
LCC Class: 828
PDF Catalogs:
LU Academic Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf
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