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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 15:24:24 -0600
Thanks, Cathi, for the additions to the list. Later this month we'll ask for comments on other author/artist autobiographies but for the first week or so, we want to focus on the 1998 books by Anita Lobel, Lois Lowry, and Jerry Spinelli. If you haven't had a chance to read these yet, we strongly encourage all of you in the CCBC-Net community to seek them out.
Kathleen Horning
An adjunct to Kathleen's list of memoirs:
For a fun, autobiographical look into an author's childhood, adolescence & unorthodox/wacky family: Oddballs by William Sleator (sci-fi YA novelist), 1993.
Also, Jean Fritz' Homesick, the story of her childhood in China (1982 Amer. Book Award winner and Newbery Honor Book), should be on the "earliest" list. Roald Dahl had two autobiographies: Boy, and another, I can't recall the title, about his creepy English boarding school years.
Cathy Blaski Illustrator Milwaukee
Received on Thu 01 Apr 1999 03:24:24 PM CST
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 15:24:24 -0600
Thanks, Cathi, for the additions to the list. Later this month we'll ask for comments on other author/artist autobiographies but for the first week or so, we want to focus on the 1998 books by Anita Lobel, Lois Lowry, and Jerry Spinelli. If you haven't had a chance to read these yet, we strongly encourage all of you in the CCBC-Net community to seek them out.
Kathleen Horning
An adjunct to Kathleen's list of memoirs:
For a fun, autobiographical look into an author's childhood, adolescence & unorthodox/wacky family: Oddballs by William Sleator (sci-fi YA novelist), 1993.
Also, Jean Fritz' Homesick, the story of her childhood in China (1982 Amer. Book Award winner and Newbery Honor Book), should be on the "earliest" list. Roald Dahl had two autobiographies: Boy, and another, I can't recall the title, about his creepy English boarding school years.
Cathy Blaski Illustrator Milwaukee
Received on Thu 01 Apr 1999 03:24:24 PM CST
