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Born #onthisday1970 Jonathan Stroud British #Fantasy #Fiction #writerof #childrenlit #YAfiction major works are the best-selling Bartimus Trilogy where Stroud ventures beyond genre stereotypes using Bartimus a sarcastic djinni to examine ethics of the magicians & enslaved demons
Born #onthisday1961 Laurie Halse Anderson American #childrenlit #YAfiction #writer Breakthrough Speak (1999) translated into 16 languages #historicalfictionnovel Fever 1793 (2000) followed by Catalyst (2002) picture book Thank You, Sarah! (2002) + Prom (2005) + Wintergirls (2009)
Born #onthisday1929 Ursula K. Le Guin iconic ground-breaking American #speculativefiction #scifi #author x 20 evocative #novels + amazing 100+ #shortstories + #childrenlit #poetry + #literarycriticism many stories had anthropologists as protagonists influenced by Taoist ideas …
Born #onthisday1928 Eleanor Spence AM Australian #childrenlit #YAfiction #author one of 1st #writersfor older children to explore homosexuality disability & prejudice + a diverse range of issues from Australian history to materialism religion alienation & bigotry he emphasised …
Born #onthisday1942 Bob Graham Australian #childrenlit picture book #author #illustrator for very young children picture book Max won Smarties Prize (2000) Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child won Kate Greenway Medal (2002) Let's Get A Pup! Said Kate won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (2002)
Born #onthisday1943 R L Stine American Stephen King of #childrenlit #novelist #shortstoreywriter #screenwriter TV producer & executive #editor of 100s of #horror stories best known for Fear Street (1989) + Goosebumps (1992) series + Rotten School (2005) sold 400+ million copies
Born #onthisday1928 Louise Fitzhugh American #author & #illustrator of #childrenlit helped introduce a new realism to children's fiction best known for #novel Harriet the Spy (1964) sold 2 million copies & 2 sequels attracted controversy as characters weren’t feminine stereotypes
Published #onthisday1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again a #childrenlit #fantasy #novel by English #author J.R.R. Tolkien received to sweeping critical acclaim won prize from New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction #novel is entrenched as a classic in children's …
Born #onthisday1961 Andy Griffiths Australian #childrenlit #author + x 9 picture books best known for his Just! x 9-book series adapted as the What’s with Andy animated television series Treehouse x 14 Bum x 3 + Bad Books x2 series #novel The Day My Bum Went Psycho adapted for TV
Born #onthisday1968 Sally Murphy Australian #childrenlit #author x 30 books inc picture books chapter books verse #novels educational titles #poet started writing at a young age entering writing competitions 1st book Speak Out (1997) was a book of printable educational activities
… Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything (2013) + his #childrenlit work The Darkest Dark (2016) + x 2 #espionage #thriller #novels The Apollo Murders (2021) & The Defector (2023)
Born #onthisday1908 William Keepers Maxwell Jr American Legendary mentor confidant to the day’s most prominent #authors #novelist #shortstoreywriter #essayist #editor #childrenlit fiction editor The New Yorker 1936 - 1975 won the National Book Award (1982) Mark Twain Award (1995)
Born #onthisday1944 Joanna Cole American #childrenlit #author of 250+ books sold 93+ million copies in 13 countries 1st book Cockroaches (1971) always kept the emotional level of readers in mind in writing children's books best known for The Magic School Bus science series x13
Born #onthisday1926 J.O. Jeppson American #author psychiatrist psychoanalyst started writing #childrenlit #scifi in 1970s 1st #novel The Second Experiment (1974) known for Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot (1983) & How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and Comfort (1987) with Isaac Asimov
Born #onthisday1972 Hoa Pham Australian #author x 5 x 2 #childrenlit 1st #novel Vixen won Sydney Morning Herald's Young Writer of the Year award (2001) The Other Shore (2014) was a co-winner of Seizure's Viva la Novella 2 competition Most recent novel The Lady of the Realm (2017)
Born #onthisday1905 Denys Watkins-Pitchford prolific British #author #illustrator #childrenlit #novels under pseudonym BB developed a love of the outdoors which deeply influenced his writing best known for The Little Grey Men Won Carnegie Medal for British children’s books (1942)
Born #onthisday1899 E.B. White American #writer #author of popular #childrenlit books Stuart Little (1945) + Charlotte's Web (1952) & The Trumpet of the Swan (1970) a contributing editor to The New Yorker magazine & co-author of Elements of Style an English language style guide
Born #onthisday1959 Katherine Scholes Australian #author of international bestselling #novels Make Me An Idol The Rain Queen & The Stone Angel + acclaimed #childrenlit books The Peacetimes The Boy and the Whale + #YAlit #novel The Blue Chameleon won New South Wales Literary Award
… for TV co-wrote #graphicnovel The Magicians: Alice's Story (2019) with Lilah Sturges illustrator Pius Bak 1st #childrenlit book was The Silver Arrow (2020) debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list its sequel The Golden Swift (2022) Arthurian novel The Bright Sword (2024
Born #onthisday1915 Charlotte Zolotow American #childrenlit #author #editor #poet #publisher x 70+ picture books published by 20+ houses best known for The Storm Book (1952) Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (1962) When the Wind Stops (1962) River Winding (1970) Who Is Ben (1997)
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