Jean Fritz (1915–2017)
Autor/a de And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
Sobre l'autor
Jean Fritz was born in Hankow, China on November 16, 1915. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Wheaton College in 1937. She wrote picture books and historical fiction before focusing on historical nonfiction. Her first book, Bunny Hopewell's First Spring, was published in 1954. Her mostra'n més other books included And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?; Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?; Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?; Shh! We're Writing the Constitution; Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold; Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?; Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?; The Double Life of Pocahontas; and George Washington's Mother. Homesick: My Own Story, a collection of linked narratives, traces her life from her girlhood in China to her longed-for yet uneasy passage to America. It won a National Book Award and was named a Newbery Honor Book. She received the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association, the National Humanities Medal, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for her body of work. She died on May 14, 2017 at the age of 101. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Jean Fritz
Appearances 3 exemplars
Who’s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? 1 exemplars
Early Thunder 1 exemplars
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? 1 exemplars
Når man bliver stor 1 exemplars
Peter Langohrs erster Frühling 1 exemplars
Multicultural Pack : Number the Stars; Julie of the Wolves; Bud Not Buddy; the House on Mango Street; Finding Miracles… (2009) 1 exemplars
Sense títol 1 exemplars
Stories for Thanksgiving: Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?, the Pilgrims of Plimoth, Giving Thanks (Playaway… (2010) 1 exemplars
Set of 4 United States History Books by Jean Fritz (Who's Stepping on Plymouth Rock ~ Shh! We're Writing the… (1975) 1 exemplars
Tap, tap, lion---1, 2, 3 1 exemplars
Who Was Thomas Jefferson 1 exemplars
Hurrah for Jonathan! 1 exemplars
Harriet Beacher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children (1990) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Fritz, Jean Guttery
- Altres noms
- Fritz, Jean
- Data de naixement
- 1915-11-16
- Data de defunció
- 2017-05-14
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA (naturalized)
- Lloc de naixement
- Hankow, China
- Lloc de defunció
- Sleepy Hollow, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Hankow, China
West Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
Sleepy Hollow, New York, USA - Educació
- Wheaton College, Massachusetts (1937)
- Professions
- children's book author
biographer - Premis i honors
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (1986)
National Humanities Medal (2003)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1976)
Regina Medal (1985) - Biografia breu
- Born Jean Guttery, she was the daughter of missionaries.
Membres
Converses
Kids’ chapter book set in China a Name that Book (octubre 2018)
Children's chapter book about kid on the Yangtze a Name that Book (febrer 2013)
Ressenyes
Brendan the Navigator de Jean Fritz
Only 32 pages long, but clever, witty, and incisive. I particularly like the discussion of the evidence for the Brendan voyage and how, until 1960, the evidence for the Leif Ericsson voyage was no more than traditional tales, until the archaeological discoveries. The illustrations are rather clever, and obviously inspired by the Irish decorated manuscripts, of which the most famous is the book of Kells.
Everyone has a mother. Even George Washington. But Mary Washington is nothing like you'd think! She hates to dress up. And she always thinks she knows what's best for George. After all, she's his mother! You can read more about her in this true story by Jean Fritz.
Harriet Beecher Stowe grew up in a family in which her seven brothers were expected to be successful preachers and the four girls were never to speak in public. But slavery made Harriet so angry she couldn't keep quiet. Although she used a pen rather than her voice to convince people of the evils of slavery, she became more famous than any of her brothers. She firmly believed that words could make change, and by writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe hastened the Civil War and changed the course of America history.… (més)
This factual gem that's written with Newbery Honor author Jean Fritz's humorous touch chronicles the hot summer of 1787 where fifty-five delegates from thirteen states huddled together in the strictest secrecy in Philadelphia to draw up the constitution of the United States!
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 72
- També de
- 12
- Membres
- 33,257
- Popularitat
- #579
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 262
- ISBN
- 506
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 12
- Pedres de toc
- 141