Jon Scieszka
Författare till The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Om författaren
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. visa mer 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) visa färre
Serier
Verk av Jon Scieszka
Time Warp Trio Set, See You Later, Gladiator, Summer Reading Is Killing Me, Your Mother Was A Neanderthal, Knights of… (2000) 45 exemplar
The Time Warp Trio Volume 1: #1: The Knights of the Kitchen Table; #2: The Not-so-Jolly Roger (Time Warp Trio) (1998) 8 exemplar
Can Big Rig Pass? 3 exemplar
Guys Read website 2 exemplar
Max, the Hot Rod 2 exemplar
Blue? Trucktown on Reading Street 2 exemplar
Pete 1 exemplar
Ted 1 exemplar
A Nap 1 exemplar
the time warp trio # 8 it's all greek to me 1 exemplar
A VERDADEIRA HISTÓRIA DOS TRÊS PORQUINHOS! 1 exemplar
La verdadera historia de los tres cerditos 1 exemplar
True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The 1 exemplar
The time warp trio the not so Jolly Roger 1 exemplar
Rats 1 exemplar
The timer warp trio 2095 1 exemplar
JACK AND MAX TRUCKTOWN ON READING STREET 1 exemplar
The Big Frog Prince 1 exemplar
2095: Time Warp Trio, Book 5 1 exemplar
Trucktown - Pete's Party 1 exemplar
Book Set Time Warp Trio Books : The Knights of the Kitchen Table - Summer Reading Is Killing Me - The Good, The Bad,… (2005) 1 exemplar
Thirteen Diddles [short story] 1 exemplar
Children Story Book Set (2 Pack): The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales - The True Story of the Three… (1997) 1 exemplar
the time warp trio 1 exemplar
Ta mère est une Neandertal 1 exemplar
Perfect You 1 exemplar
Mud Fun 1 exemplar
Frank Einstein 3: O Turbocérebro 1 exemplar
NOS VEMOS GLADIADOR 1 exemplar
ABC 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Författare — 1,528 exemplar
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 842 exemplar
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel… (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 647 exemplar
First Kiss (Then Tell): A Collection of True Lip-Locked Moments (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 94 exemplar
Love & Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1954-09-08
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Flint, Michigan, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Flint, Michigan, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Albion College
Columbia University
Culver Military Academy - Yrken
- teacher
frequent apartment painter
children's book author - Relationer
- Scieszka, Shirley (mother), Scieszka, Louis (father), Scieszka, Jarilyn Hansen (wife)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2008-2009)
- Agent
- Kathryn Hurley (Penguin)
Steven Malk (Writers House)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
1980s (1)
Unread books (1)
Best Satire (1)
At the Library (1)
Antiheroes (1)
Sonlight Books (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 151
- Även av
- 13
- Medlemmar
- 47,609
- Popularitet
- #332
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
- 1,851
- ISBN
- 1,017
- Språk
- 12
- Favoritmärkt
- 39
- Proberstenar
- 244
Awards: New York Times Best Illustrated Book award
Caldecott Honor book in 1993