Which modern children’s author, a former Children’s Laureate, wrote ‘4 Children and It’ in 2012?
"the plot of ""Half Magic"" (1954) by Edward Eager, an American author of children's books. ""The Return of the Psammead"" (1992) by Helen Cresswell concerns another family of Edwardian children who discover the Psammead. ""Four Children and It"" (2012) by Jacqueline Wilson is a contemporary version of the story in which four children from a modern blended family encounter the Psammead. One of the children has read the original book and wishes to meet Cyril, Anthea, Jane and Robert. In ""Five Children on the Western Front"" (2014) by Kate Saunders, set nine years after the original story, the five children"
"Five Children and It Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the ""Strand Magazine"" under the general title ""The Psammead, or the Gifts"", with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904) and ""The Story of the Amulet"" (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication. Like Nesbit's ""The Railway Children"","
"have four children. Schlee has written a number of books including: Ann Schlee Ann Schlee FRSL (born 1934) is an English novelist. She won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for ""The Vandal"" (1979), a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997. As a child, Ann Schlee was brought up in the United States by her mother and grandparents until the end of the Second World War. Afterward she began to settle in Cairo, Egypt, with her parents. They later moved to Sudan and"
"2012 by Grand Central Publishing. She has written a fourth novel, ""This Could Hurt"", acquired by HarperCollins and due out in 2018. The eldest daughter of a traveling salesman, Jillian moved 17 times by age 17, ultimately settling in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a BA from Barnard College class of 1985 and a Master of Fine Arts from New York University. She has studied under the direction of Mona Simpson, Jonathan Dee, Robert Coover, and Alice Walker. She also attended Master Classes with Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Grace Paley. She is a former fellow at the MacDowell Colony,"
"reviewed by ""BookList"" (starred review), ""School Library Journal"", ""Kirkus Reviews"" (starred review and a 2012 Best Book), ""Publishers Weekly"", the ""Journal of Children's Literature"", and ""The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"". It is a 2009 shortlisted Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature book, a 2012 School Library Journal Best Book, a 2013 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Notable Children's Book, a 2013 USBBY Outstanding International Book, and a 2013 Childrens and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards (Cybils) Early Chapter Book winner. Sadie and Ratz Sadie and Ratz is a 2008 chapter book by Sonya Hartnett. It"
"(OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. In June 2013, Blackman was announced as the new Children's Laureate, succeeding Julia Donaldson. Malorie Blackman lives with her husband Neil and daughter Elizabeth in Kent, England. In her free time, she likes to play her piano, compose, play computer games and write poetry. She is the subject of a biography for children by Verna Wilkins. In March 2014, Blackman joined other prominent authors in supporting the Let Books Be Books campaign, which seeks to stop children’s books being labelled as 'for girls' or 'for boys'. In August 2014, Malorie Blackman was one of"
"form, a little girl dreams about flying on her broom. In addition to being an award-winning author, McGhee is a professor of creative writing at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. McGhee is single with three children. 2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award with co-author Kate DiCamillo and illustrator Tony Fucile (""Bink and Gollie"") 2003 Minnesota Book Award (""Countdown to Kindergarten"") The Great Lakes College Association National Fiction Award <BR> 1999 Minnesota Book Award (""Rainlight"") Alison McGhee Alison McGhee (born July 8, 1960) is an American author, who has published several picture books, books for children, and adult novels. She"
"Five Children and It (film) Five Children and It is a 2004 children's fantasy-comedy-drama adventure film adaptation of the novel ""Five Children and It"", which features live action and computer animation. It was directed by John Stephenson, produced by Nick Hirschkorn, Lisa Henson and Samuel Hadida, written by E. Nesbit and David Solomons with music by Jane Antonia Cornish and starring Tara FitzGerald, Freddie Highmore, Alex Jennings, Jonathan Bailey, Jessica Claridge, Poppy Rogers, Alec Muggleton, Zak Muggleton, Zoë Wanamaker, Kenneth Branagh, Alexander Pownall, Robert Tygner, Eddie Izzard as the voice of It-Psammead, Georgio Serafini, John Sessions, Kim Fenton, Norman Wisdom"
"work, ""The Four-Gated City"", is a science fiction dystopia set in London, from the 1950s into a future where World War Three takes place. Children of Violence The Children of Violence is a series of five semi-autobiographical novels by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing: ""Martha Quest"" (1952), ""A Proper Marriage"" (1954), ""A Ripple from the Storm"" (1958), ""Landlocked"" (1965), and ""The Four-Gated City"" (1969). The series follows the life of the protagonist Martha Quest from adolescence until her death, which takes place in the future, in the year 1997. The first four novels are set during the 1930s"
"Academy of Children and Juvenile Literature. Edna Iturralde Edna Iturralde (born 1948) is an Ecuadorian author who has won multiple national and international awards. She is considered the most important figure in children and young adult's literature of her country and, with fifty-seven books published, some of them in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Spain, this author has attained significant international recognition. She is a 2014 International Latino Book Awards Finalist. Edna has six children and nine grandchildren. She lives in Quito, Ecuador in the Valley of Tumbaco with her husband and four dogs, who keep her company while she writes."
"with two such honors (no one has won three), having won the 1986 Medal for ""Goggle-Eyes"". The earlier book uses a day school frame to recount a story of family life. Little, Brown published the first U.S. edition in 1994. The teachers were renamed and the students were moved from ""class 4C"" to ""Room 8"" for the American audience. Some libraries report the title ""Flour babies and the boys of Room 8"". The story centres around Simon Martin, a pupil in class 4C at an unnamed school. 4C is the class reserved for the school's worst students. As it so"
"Malcolm talked about Hamish and his life in an interview with Juliet Rix for ""The Guardian"" in 2009. Alastair (born 1981) is married with a daughter and a son and is a lecturer in Computing Science at Imperial College, London. Jesse, known as Jerry (born 1987), is married with two sons and is a trainee social worker in Dundee, Scotland. Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson (born 16 September 1948) is an English writer, playwright and performer, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include ""The"
"Children of Violence The Children of Violence is a series of five semi-autobiographical novels by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing: ""Martha Quest"" (1952), ""A Proper Marriage"" (1954), ""A Ripple from the Storm"" (1958), ""Landlocked"" (1965), and ""The Four-Gated City"" (1969). The series follows the life of the protagonist Martha Quest from adolescence until her death, which takes place in the future, in the year 1997. The first four novels are set during the 1930s and 1940s, in the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in southern Africa, where Lessing lived from 1925 until 1949. The fifth"
"Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel quartet ""Shiloh"" (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner) and for her ""Alice"" book series, one of the most frequently challenged books of the last decade. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in the U.S.A. She grew up during the Great Depression with her older sister Norma and younger brother John. She has said that she never felt poor, as her parents had a book collection and read stories aloud to her and her"
"Bruce Larkin Bruce Larkin (born January 23, 1957) is a children's book author and poet who writes in English and Spanish. Many of his works are published by Wilbooks, an educational publishing company. Larkin's books are primarily used to teach young children how to read. Larkin has authored more than 1000 books, both fiction and non-fiction, for beginner readers. Bruce Larkin is known for his philanthropic efforts in the field of literacy. In November and December 2009, Larkin donated over 400,000 books to schools all around the United States. Larkin was named the 2012 Children's Poet of the Year by"
"rewarding read"" and ""a delightfully clever debut"" in a starred review. Bank Street College named ""Nooks & Crannies"" to its Best Children's Books of 2016 list. Jessica Lawson Jessica Lawson is an author of middle-grade books which have received considerable critical acclaim. Lawson attended Homestead High School in Indiana, going on to earn a BA in Spanish from the University of Denver and a MS in Outdoor Recreation and Natural Resource Management from Indiana University. She has lived in Colorado and Pennsylvania. She began writing in the summer of 2009 after the birth of her first child. Lawson produced eight"
"an Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee for ""Best Young Adult"". Her third young-adult novel, ""Everybody Sees the Ants"", was named one of the Top Ten Books for Young Adults in 2012 and was an Andre Norton Award finalist. Her fourth young-adult novel, ""Ask the Passengers"" (2012), won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was also a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a ""Library Journal"" Best YA Books for Adults selection. This was followed by ""Reality Boy"" in 2013, which was inspired by wondering if some children on reality television that were presented as entertainment were subject to abuse. Her"
"200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ""The Guardian"" opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. Her novel ""Operation Gadgetman!"" was also adapted into a 1996 TV movie directed by Jim Goddard and starring Marina Sirtis. Malorie Blackman Malorie Blackman, OBE (born 8 February 1962), is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed ""Noughts and Crosses"" series"
"finalists for the annual Carnegie Medal, which recognises the year's best children's book published in the UK The judges recommended it for readers age 12 and up. Her fourth book, ""Sparks"", published by Marion Lloyd in 2010, was one of eight books on the longlist for that year's Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The Prize is judged by a panel of children's writers and it annually recognises one new British children's novel by an author who has not won it. The judges recommended ""Sparks"" for readers age 9 and over. According to their summary, the adventure novel features three children who"
"Margaret Bechard Margaret Bechard (born 1953) is an American author of contemporary and science fiction for children and young adults. Bechard was born in 1953 in Chico, California. She received her bachelor's degree in English literature from Reed College in 1976. She is married to Lee Boekelheide and they have three sons. She lives in Tigard, Oregon. Bechard served as the Young People's Literature Chair of the 2006 National Book Award Committee. Her books are published in English, French, Swedish and Korean. She teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine"
"Deborah Chancellor Deborah Helen Chancellor (née Mowbray born 7 July 1966) is an English writer; to date, she has written over 70 books. Chancellor (née Mowbray) is the second of four girls. She attended The Broxbourne School, Hertfordshire, from 1977 to 1984. She read Modern & Medieval Languages at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1985-1988. Chancellor is a children's writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her work includes ""Harriet Tubman"" (A&C Black, 2013), ""Code Breakers"" (Barrington Stoke, 2009), ""Escape from Colditz"" (Barrington Stoke, 2007) and two collections of illustrated children's stories, ""I love reading Phonics"" (Octopus Publishing, 2012) and ""Reading Heroes"" (Parragon,"
"2017) by award-winning author, Laura Ruby is one of the best reviewed children’s books of 2017 , and is currently in film development with Walden Media. Walden Pond Press publishes a small, targeted list of middle grade book titles every year. r. Notable titles include Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce (2010), The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander (2011), Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu (2011), The Hero’s Guide series by Christopher Healy (2012-2015), Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson (2016), and National Book Award Longlist winners The Real Boy by Anne Ursu (2013) and Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder (2017)"
"writing. When she grew up, she went to New York City, married, and had two sons, Gabriel and Nathaniel. Sarah Weeks Sarah Weeks (born March 18, 1955) is an American writer of children's books, perhaps best known for the novel ""So B. It"" which has won several juvenile literature awards. In 2006 it won the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award and in 2007 it won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award and William Allen White Children's Book Award. Sarah Weeks was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1955, the daughter of an English professor. She has a brother and"
"Kate DiCamillo Katrina Elizabeth ""Kate"" DiCamillo (born March 25, 1964) is an American writer of children's fiction for all reading levels, usually featuring animals. She is one of six people to win two Newbery Medals, recognizing her novels ""The Tale of Despereaux"" (2003) and ""Flora & Ulysses"" (2013). Her best-known books for young children are the Mercy Watson series, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen. DiCamillo was the U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, appointed by the Library of Congress for the term comprising 2014 and 2015. DiCamillo won the American Library Association's Newbery Medal, which recognizes the previous year's"
"it, and that schizophrenia is the name of our blindest contemporary prejudice"". The Four-Gated City The Four-Gated City, published in 1969, is the concluding novel in British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing's five-volume, semi-autobiographical series ""The Children of Violence"", which she began, in 1952, with ""Martha Quest"". The series ""Children of Violence"" follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest, from age fifteen in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, through adolescence and a marriage shaped by the Second World War. In ""The Four-Gated City"" Lessings moves the setting from Southern Rhodesia, southern Africa, to London, and this novel has a science fiction,"
"Tulane"" movie. 20th Century Fox has hired Martin Hynes to write a script based on the book, ""The Magician's Elephant"". Kate DiCamillo Katrina Elizabeth ""Kate"" DiCamillo (born March 25, 1964) is an American writer of children's fiction for all reading levels, usually featuring animals. She is one of six people to win two Newbery Medals, recognizing her novels ""The Tale of Despereaux"" (2003) and ""Flora & Ulysses"" (2013). Her best-known books for young children are the Mercy Watson series, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen. DiCamillo was the U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, appointed by the Library of Congress"
"children's fiction). Waterstones is also the main sponsor of ""The Waterstones Children's Laureate"", previously sponsored by Ottakar's. The 2011–2013 role saw the position carry the Waterstones branding for the first time, with the company stating it was 'up weighting [its] activity' and 'supporting the role in shops and online in different ways throughout the year and beyond.' Holders of the role during sponsorship include Julia Donaldson, Malorie Blackman and the current holder, Chris Riddle. The prize, which has been running since 2012, sees booksellers from across the company select a shortlist of books from any category, published at any time,"
"Air"", ""Sunday Times"", 18 January 2009 (online edition) Anne Fine Anne Fine, OBE FRSL (born 7 December 1947) is an English writer, best known for children's books although she also writes for adults. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and she was appointed an OBE in 2003. Fine has written more than seventy children's books, including two winners of the annual Carnegie Medal and three highly commended runners-up. For some of those five books she also won the Guardian Prize, one Smarties Prize, two Whitbread Awards, and she was twice the Children's Author of the Year."
"States, it is on many middle school reading lists, but it is also frequently challenged and it ranked number 11 on the American Library Association list of the most challenged books of the 1990s. A 2012 survey based in the U.S. designated it the fourth-best children's novel of all time. In 2014, a film adaptation was released, starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep and Brenton Thwaites. The novel forms a loose quartet with three other books set in the same future era, known as The Giver Quartet: ""Gathering Blue"" (2000), ""Messenger"" (2004), and ""Son"" (2012). Jonas, a 12-year-old boy, lives in"
"encounter the horrors of the First World War. ""Five Children and It"" has been adapted for television and film several times: Five Children and It Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the ""Strand Magazine"" under the general title ""The Psammead, or the Gifts"", with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904) and ""The Story"
"the Kurt Maschler Award, or ""the Emil"", in 1991 for ""Have You Seen Who's Just Moved in Next Door to Us?"" (Walker), which he wrote and illustrated. That award from Maschler Publications and Booktrust annually recognised one ""work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."" He won the 1996 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in category 0–5 years for ""Oops!"". Colin McNaughton Colin McNaughton (born 1 May 1951) is a British writer and illustrator of over 70 children's books. He is also a poet, focusing mainly on humorous children's"
"2002, her book ""Gooney Bird Greene"" won the Rhode Island Children's Book Award. In 2011 she gave the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture; her lecture was titled ""Unleaving: The Staying Power of Gold"". In 2014, Lowry was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Brown University. In 2014, a film of 'The Giver' starring Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep was released to mixed reviews. An animated film of Lowry's book 'The Willoughbys' will be a Netflix film in 2020. Lois Lowry Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer credited with forty-five children's books. She has"
"the parents' marital status. Levy is President emeritus of CRC. He published ""Revolt of the Animals"", a fantasy novel, in 2010, and has completed a book entitled ""Child in the Middle,"" which, though unpublished, has been cited with Levy's permission by authors of other books, including a book by Dr. Ron Mincy of Columbia University, an authority on research affecting never-married parents and their children. Levy has completed another book, ""Viktor IV"" about a modern artist who lived on a houseboat in the Amstel River in Holland from 1961-86. Levy knew Viktor IV when they were both students at the"