Jon Scieszka
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Jon Scieszka was born September 8, 1954 in Flint , Michigan. After he graduated from Culver Military Academy where he was a Lieutenant, he studied to be a doctor at Albion College. He changed career directions and attended Columbia University where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980. näytä lisää Before he became a full time writer, Scieszka was a lifeguard, painted factories, houses, and apartments and also wrote for magazines. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years as a 1st grade assistant, a 2nd grade homeroom teacher, and a computer, math, science and history teacher in 3rd - 8th grade. He decided to take off a year from teaching in order to work with Lane Smith, an illustrator, to develop ideas for children's books. His book, The Stinky Cheese Man received the 1994 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. Scieszka's Math Curse, illustrated by Lane Smith, was an American Library Association Notable Book in 1996; a Blue Ribbon Book from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books in 1995; and a Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book in 1995. The Stinky Cheese Man received Georgia's 1997 Children's Choice Award and Wisconsin's The Golden Archer Award. Math Curse received Maine's Student Book Award, The Texas Bluebonnet Award and New Hampshire's The Great Stone Face Book Award in 1997. He was appointed the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress in 2008. In 2014 his title, Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor made The New York Times Best Seller List. Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger made the list in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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The Knights of the Kitchen Table / Your Mother Was a Neanderthal / Summer Reading Is Killing Me! / See You Later,… (2000) 45 kappaletta
The Knights of the Kitchen Table / The Not-So-Jolly Roger / The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy 3 kappaletta
Can Big Rig Pass? 3 kappaletta
Max, the Hot Rod 2 kappaletta
Guys Read website 2 kappaletta
Jack Is It! 1 kappale
Frank Einstein og elektrofingeren 1 kappale
A Nap 1 kappale
Ted 1 kappale
Pete 1 kappale
Each Sold Separately [short story] 1 kappale
the time warp trio 1 kappale
The Big Frog Prince 1 kappale
Rats 1 kappale
Mud Fun 1 kappale
The Knights of the Kitchen Table / The Not-So-Jolly Roger / The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy / Summer Reading Is… (2005) 1 kappale
Thirteen Diddles [short story] 1 kappale
Perfect You 1 kappale
Associated Works
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Tekijä — 1,548 kappaletta
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales (2011) — Avustaja — 856 kappaletta
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel… (2005) — Avustaja — 657 kappaletta
Love & Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life (2015) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1954-09-08
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Flint, Michigan, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Flint, Michigan, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Koulutus
- Albion College
Columbia University
Culver Military Academy - Ammatit
- teacher
frequent apartment painter
children's book author - Suhteet
- Scieszka, Shirley (mother), Scieszka, Louis (father), Scieszka, Jarilyn Hansen (wife)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2008-2009)
- Agentti
- Kathryn Hurley (Penguin)
Steven Malk (Writers House)
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Unread books (1)
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Reading Rainbow (1)
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