Jon Scieszka
Autor(a) de The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
About the Author
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. mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Jon Scieszka
The Knights of the Kitchen Table / Your Mother Was a Neanderthal / Summer Reading Is Killing Me! / See You Later,… (2000) 46 cópias
The Knights of the Kitchen Table / The Not-So-Jolly Roger / The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy 3 cópias
Can Big Rig Pass? 3 cópias
Max, the Hot Rod 2 cópias
Guys Read website 2 cópias
the time warp trio 1 exemplar(es)
Pete 1 exemplar(es)
Sounds will be Sounds: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables 1 exemplar(es)
Ted 1 exemplar(es)
A Nap 1 exemplar(es)
The Time Warp Trio 5 Book Set : The Knights of the Kitchen Table, Tut Tut, The Not So Jolly Roger, Your Mother Was a… 1 exemplar(es)
[(Squids Will be Squids )] [Author: Jon Scieszka] [Sep-1998] 1 exemplar(es)
Bioactiunea 1 exemplar(es)
Centura Evoblaster 1 exemplar(es)
Scary Stories III: More Tales to Chill Your Bones 1 exemplar(es)
Jack Is It! 1 exemplar(es)
The Big Frog Prince 1 exemplar(es)
Mud Fun 1 exemplar(es)
Rats 1 exemplar(es)
Each Sold Separately [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
The Knights of the Kitchen Table / The Not-So-Jolly Roger / The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy / Summer Reading Is… (2005) 1 exemplar(es)
Perfect You 1 exemplar(es)
Thirteen Diddles [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Autor — 1,560 cópias
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales (2011) — Contribuinte — 859 cópias
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel… (2005) — Contribuinte — 660 cópias
Love & Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life (2015) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1954-09-08
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Flint, Michigan, USA
- Locais de residência
- Flint, Michigan, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Educação
- Albion College
Columbia University
Culver Military Academy - Ocupação
- teacher
frequent apartment painter
children's book author - Relacionamentos
- Scieszka, Shirley (mother), Scieszka, Louis (father), Scieszka, Jarilyn Hansen (wife)
- Premiações
- National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2008-2009)
- Agente
- Kathryn Hurley (Penguin)
Steven Malk (Writers House)
Membros
Resenhas
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Unread books (1)
Best Satire (1)
1980s (1)
Antiheroes (1)
1990s (1)
Reading Rainbow (1)
Favourite Books (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 141
- Also by
- 15
- Membros
- 48,940
- Popularidade
- #319
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 1,876
- ISBNs
- 1,031
- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 39