Deborah Hopkinson
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Deborah Hopkinson is an American writer of children's books, primarily historical fiction, nonfiction and picture books. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.[1]
Selected books
- Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (1993)
- Maria's Comet (1999)
- Pioneer Summer (2002)
- Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings (2003)
- Shutting Out the Sky (2003)
- Apples to Oregon (2004)
- Sky Boys (2005)
- Into the Firestorm (2006)
- Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek (2008)
- Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (2009)
- Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (2012)
- The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (2013)
- Steamboat School (2016)
- A Letter to my Teacher (2017)
Awards
- Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt won the International Reading Association Award.[2]
- Sky Boys, about the builders of the Empire State Building, was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor book.[3]
- Keep On!, about Matthew Henson, won the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature for 2009/2010.
- Titanic: Voices from the Disaster was a Robert F. Sibert Honor book and a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist.
- The Great Trouble, a novel about Dr. John Snow and a cholera outbreak in Victorian London, was an Oregon Book Award finalist and winner of the Oregon Spirit Award.
- Steamboat School, about John Berry Meachum and his students, received the 2017 Jane Addams Children's Book Award, given annually to a children's book that advances the causes of peace and social equality.[4]
- Two of her books won a Jane Addams Book Honor Award in 2004: Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings about Alta Weiss, for younger readers and Shutting Out the Sky, about immigrants in 1900s New York, for older readers.[4]
- Shutting Out the Sky was also an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book.[5]
- She received Mathical Honors for The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel.[6]
- Follow the Moon Home won the Green Book Award for children's picture book in 2017, and in 2021 she received the award again for her book Butterflies Belong Here.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Bio". Deborah Hopkinson (deborahhopkinson.com). Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ "IRA Children's and Young Adult's Book Awards". International Reading Association. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ "Winners and Honor Books 1967 to present". The Horn Book. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ a b "Jane Addams Peace Association - Previous Winners of the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Listed by Year". Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
- ^ "Deborah Hopkinson". Greenwood Publishing Group. 1008. Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ "Mathical Book Prizes 2021" (PDF).
- ^ "Green Earth Book Award | The Nature Generation". www.natgen.org. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
External links
- Official website
- Deborah Hopkinson at Library of Congress Authorities, with 45 catalog records
- Deborah Hopkinson at Fantastic Fiction
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