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Guys Read
Guys Read is a web-based literacy program for boys founded by author Jon Scieszka in 2001. Its mission is "to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers" by bringing attention to the issue, promoting the expansion of what is called "reading" to include materials like comic books, and encouraging grown men to be literacy role models. Scieszka said, "It kind of came out of my experience both as growing up a guy, for starters, and then going into elementary school teaching, where I found that the guy sensibility isn't really appreciated there, mostly that the world of elementary school is probably like 85% women - teachers and librarians." As for how exactly to motivate boys to read, Scieszka said, "I think the best way to do it is to give them things they like to read... What we haven't done with boys is we haven't really given them a broad range of reading. In schools, what's seen as reading is so narrow: it's literary, realistic fiction." The Guys Read website includes a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Guys may refer to: * Guys, Tennessee, a little town * Constantin Guys (1802-1892), Dutch-born war correspondent, painter and illustrator * ''The Guys'', a 2002 play by Anne Nelson * ''Guys'' (comics), the seventh novel in Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's Cerebus comic book series * GUYS, an attack team featured in the Japanese television series ''Ultraman Mebius'' * KGuys, YouTube channel * Guys Snack Foods, a snack foods manufacturer and distributor based in Overland Park, Kansas, with a target market being the Midwest. * GUYS, an attack team featured in the Japanese television series ''Ultraman Mebius'' See also * Guy (other) Guy or GUY may refer to: Personal names * Guy (given name) * Guy (surname) * That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart Places * Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet * Guy, Arkansas, US, a city * Guy, Indiana, US, an unincorpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American writer known best for the two children's series, ''Shadow Children'' (1998–2006) and ''The Missing'' (2008–2015). She also wrote the tenth volume in the multiple-author series ''The 39 Clues''. Biography Haddix grew up on a farm about halfway between two small towns: Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio. Her family was predominantly farmers and she grew up in a family of voracious readers. Some of her favorite books growing up included E.L. Konigsburg books, Harriet the Spy, Anne of Green Gables, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Anne Frank, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and The Little Princess. She graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with degrees in English/journalism, English/Creative writing, and History. While in college, Haddix worked a series of jobs. She was an assistant cook at a 4-H camp, but almost every other job has been related to writing. During college, she worked on the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Angleberger
Tom Angleberger is an American children's writer, best known for the ''Origami Yoda'' series. As of March 2013, more than 3.3 million copies of his books had been sold worldwide. Angleberger lives in Virginia with his wife, Cece Bell, who is also a children's author. Angleberger is also the author of children's books published under the name Sam Riddleburger. Personal life Angleberger and wife Cece Bell met at the College of William & Mary, where they both majored in art. They have two children. Angleberger has Asperger syndrome. Works *'' The Strange Case of Origami Yoda'' *''Darth Paper Strikes Back'' *''Fuzzy'' *''The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee'' *''Art2-D2’s Guide to Folding and Doodling'' *''The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett'' *''Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue!'' *''Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus'' *''Fake Mustache'' *''Crankee Doodle'', written by Angleberger and illustrated by Cece Bell (Clarion Books, 2013), *''Poop Fountain!: The Qwikpick Papers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Riordan
Richard Russell Riordan Junior (; born June 5, 1964) is an American author, best known for writing the ''Percy Jackson & the Olympians'' series. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the United States. 20th Century Fox adapted the first two books of his ''Percy Jackson'' series as part of a series of films, while a Disney+ adaptation is in production. His books have spawned related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections. Riordan's first full-length novel was '' Big Red Tequila'', which became the first book in the ''Tres Navarre'' series. His big breakthrough was ''The Lightning Thief'' (2005), the first novel in the five-volume ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians'' series, which placed a group of modern-day adolescents in a Greco-Roman mythological setting. Since then, Riordan has written ''The Heroes of Olympus'', a sequel to the ''Percy Jackson'' series; ''The Kane Chronicles'', a trilogy o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Santat
Dan Santat (born 1975) is an American author and illustrator known for his children's book '' The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend'', which won the 2015 Caldecott Medal for distinguished illustration. He also wrote ''The Guild of Geniuses'' and created the Disney Channel animated series '' The Replacements''. Biography Santat was born in 1975 to Thai immigrants in Brooklyn before moving to California when Santat was three.Hsu, Connie. "Dan Santat." The Horn Book Magazine, July-Aug. 2015, p. 55+. Literature Resource Center. Accessed 3 May 2018. After attending high school at Adolfo Camarillo High School, Santat graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a bachelor's degree in microbiology. Santat then attended the Art Center College of Design, graduating with distinction. While there he became friends with illustrator Peter Brown. Santat's first children's book, ''The Guild of Geniuses'', was published in 2004 by Arthur A Levine books. He followed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for '' Miracle's Boys'', and her Newbery Honor-winning titles ''Brown Girl Dreaming'', ''After Tupac and D Foster'', ''Feathers,'' and '' Show Way''. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018–19. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020. Early years Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and lived in Nelsonville, Ohio, before her family moved south. During her early years she lived in Greenville, South Carolina, before moving to Brooklyn at about the age of seven. She also states where she lives in her autobiography, ''Brown Girl Dreaming''. As a child, Woodson enjoyed telling stories and always knew she wanted to be a writer. Her favorite books when she was young were Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac (born October 16, 1942) is an American writer and storyteller based in New York. He writes about Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American and Anglo-American lives and folklore. He has published poetry, novels, and short stories. Some of his notable works include the novel ''Dawn Land'' (1993) and its sequel, ''Long River'' (1995), both of which feature a young Abenaki man before European contact. Early life Bruchac was raised in Saratoga Springs, New York. He identifies as being of Abenaki, English, and Slovak ancestry. His grandfather, Jesse Bowman, identified as having Abenaki heritage. Joseph Bruchac is a member of the Nulhegan Abenaki Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Vermont. Education Bruchac holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from Cornell University, a master's degree in literature and creative writing from Syracuse, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Union Institute of Ohio. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Ursu
Anne Ursu is an American novelist and children's writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Biography She attended Brown University. Ursu's first novel, ''Spilling Clarence'', is about a drug that wafts through the air of a small Minnesota town. The drug had a strong effect on the town's residents, who then suffered from visceral memories and stupor. Her second novel, ''The Disapparation of James'', is about a boy disappearing during a stage magic trick. ''Breadcrumbs,'' a middle-grade novel published by Walden Pond Press, was released September 27, 2011. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," ''Breadcrumbs'' is a story of the struggle to hold on, and of the things we leave behind. Ursu has also written a trilogy for middle-grade readers, the Cronus Chronicles, (published by Atheneum), involving two cousins' adventures in the realms of Greek mythology. The individual titles are ''The Shadow Thieves,'' ''The Siren Song,'' and ''The Immortal Fire.'' She published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Gutman
Dan Gutman (born October 19, 1955) is an American writer, primarily of children's fiction. His works include the '' Baseball Card Adventures'' children's book series that began with '' Honus & Me'', and the '' My Weird School'' series. Early life and education Gutman was born in New York City, moving with his family a year later to Newark, New Jersey, where on June 1, 1968, his father abandoned the family. His homemaker mother Adeline became a secretary and cared for Dan and his older sister, Lucy. After Vailsburg High School in Newark, Gutman graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in psychology in 1977. He began a graduate program in psychology, but dropped out and moved to New York City in 1980 to pursue a writing career. Career After moving to New York City, Gutman worked as a magazine editor and columnist. He became the first employee of ''Video Game Player'' (later ''Computer Games'') in 1982. He said, "I started a magazine about video games and suddenly I was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian American author. Korman has written 100 children's books, children's and young adult fiction books. Korman's books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide over a career spanning four decades and have appeared at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list, ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. Early life Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he lived until 1970. He grew up in Thornhill, Ontario, Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) and attended German Mills Public School and public high school at Thornlea Secondary School. He moved to the United States to attend college at New York University where he studied film and film-writing. Korman received a BFA from New York University in 1985; with a degree in dramatic visual writing and a minor in motion picture and television. Career Korman wrote his first book when he was 12 years old, as part of an English class taught by a PE teacher in 7th grade. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem. A tough childhood led him to writing and his school teachers would encourage him in this habit as a way to express himself. He wrote more than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His 1988 novel '' Fallen Angels'' is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War. Myers was the third U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving in 2012 and 2013. He also sat on the Board of Advisors of the Society of Children's Book Writer's and Illustrators (SCBWI). Biography Walter Milton Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on August 12 , 1937. At the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
