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Download full textVarga-Dobai, Kinga – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
Two-time Caldecott Honor winner (Free Fall, Sector 7) and three-time Caldecott Medal winner (Tuesday, The Three Pigs, Flotsam), David Wiesner is regarded as one of the most remarkable creators of visual storytelling living today. Wiesner is well known for his innovative and unique subject matter and his sophisticated painting-like illustrations…
Descriptors: Interviews, Story Telling, Visual Learning, Authors
Peer reviewedSegel, Elizabeth – Children's Literature in Education, 1982
Betsy Byars, author of more than 15 children's books, comments upon her life and work, stressing the potent impact of childhood experience on her writing. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Early Experience
Peer reviewedLewis, Claudia – Children's Literature in Education, 1984
An experienced children's writer and teacher argues for the right balance of the richly strange and comfortably familiar in books for young children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Child Language, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Dillard, Annie – American Educator, 1998
This memoir describes the author's childhood reading, its variety, and its importance in childhood and later life. The narrative clearly shows the role of reading in building the adult mind and the importance of libraries in a child's life. (SLD)
Descriptors: Authors, Child Development, Childhood Interests, Libraries
Peer reviewedPearce, Philippa – Children's Literature in Education, 1985
A distinguished writer looks again at a favorite childhood hero--Robin Hood, a work written by Henry Gilbert. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Baghban, Marcia – 1995
Three famous writers--Eudora Welty, Madeleine L'Engle, and Jack London--used their silent reading experiences to survive not only their childhoods, but also to become adult chroniclers of human lives. Pulitzer-prize winning author Eudora Welty credits an extended period of silent reading when she was 7 years old (and home from school for nearly a…
Descriptors: Authors, Childhood Interests, Early Experience, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedLanguage Arts, 1979
Discusses the four major concentrations that can form the framework for a childrens literature program: children's interests, literary types, literary elements, and creators of children's literature. (DD)
Descriptors: Authors, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Fleischman, Sid – Horn Book Magazine, 1987
Offers an author's thoughts on winning the Newbery Medal. Reveals the writer's background and his tentative beginnings as a children's author. (NKA)
Descriptors: Authors, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Rock, Victoria, Ed. – 1986
Conceived as a twentieth anniversary tribute to the Reading Is Fundamental Program, this book contains a varied collection of stories, poems, and drawings by some of America's most famous authors and artists of books for children, relating real and imaginary childhood memories that celebrate the joys of reading and the magic of children's…
Descriptors: Artists, Authors, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Aiex, Nola Kortner – 1985
Both the American author, L. Frank Baum, and his Brazilian counterpart, Jose Monteiro Lobato, created children's books that featured alternative worlds, peopled by characters who fascinated many generations of young readers. The authors were both born in the second half of the nineteenth century into families of privilege, and both enjoyed idyllic…
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
