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Christopher Paul Curtis

Författare till Bud, Not Buddy

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Newbery Medal-winning children's book author Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan on May 10, 1953 and graduated from The University of Michigan. While there he won the Avery and Jules Hopwood Prizes for poetry and a draft of one of his early books. Curtis spent thirteen years on an visa mer assembly line hanging car doors. His story The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 received a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and Bud, Not Buddy became the first novel to win both of these awards. Elijah of Buxton received the 2008 Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor. Curtis also won the 2009 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Födelsedag
1953-05-10
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA (birth)
Canada
Födelseort
Flint, Michigan, USA
Bostadsorter
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Utbildning
University of Michigan-Flint
Yrken
factory worker
author
Priser och utmärkelser
Michigan Author Award (2005)
Kort biografi
Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Flint Plant no.1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. Today he is a full-time writer. He and his wife, Kay, have two children, Steven and Cydney. The Curtis family lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. [adapted from Bud, not Buddy (1999)]

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I was supposed to read this book for a college class, but ended up only reading the last few chapters. I greatly enjoyed reading the full story. I like how clear Bud's voice is throughout the novel - it truly feels like a 10 year old is talking. It is interesting to read how he understood and dealt with the different situations he encountered. I also really liked that he only referred to skin color when talking about white people, since so often authors and characters only refer to skin color when talking about black people or other people of color.

Being a Michigander, it was also cool to be reading about locations and cities I am familiar with.
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BarnesBookshelf | 502 andra recensioner | Nov 10, 2023 |
This book is lovely. It's got adventure and is a little tough in terms of the hardships this young boy is dealing with, but the writing is just perfect. It's set during the depression and deals with background issues of poverty, racism and classism in a subtle, effective way, but is mostly about dealing with loss and and how to keep building your life in the face of that loss.
 
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lschiff | 502 andra recensioner | Sep 24, 2023 |
 
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Verk
17
Även av
6
Medlemmar
23,231
Popularitet
#907
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
1,138
ISBN
260
Språk
8
Favoritmärkt
18
Proberstenar
259

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