Joan Winsor Blos (December 9, 1928 – October 12, 2017) was an American writer, teacher and advocate for children's literacy.
For her 1979
historical novel
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, ''
A Gathering of Days'', Blos won the U.S.
National Book Award in category Children's Books["National Book Awards – 1980"]
National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
and the
Newbery Medal for the year's most distinguished contribution to American
children's literature.
She was born in New York City.
She lived in
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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.
[HarperCollins Publishers]
Works
*1971 ''Just Think'' (with Betty Miles)
*1979 ''
A Gathering of Days; A New England Girl's Journal, 1830–32''
*1984 ''Martin's Hats''
*1985 ''Brothers of the Heart: A Story of the Old Northwest, 1837–1838''
*1988 ''Old Henry''
*1989 ''The Grandpa Days''
*1989 ''Lottie's Circus''
*1991 ''The Heroine of the Titanic: A Tale Both True and Otherwise of the Life of Molly Brown''
*1992 ''A Seed a Flower a Minute, an Hour''
*1994 ''Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme''
*1995 ''The Hungry Little Boy''
*1996 ''Nellie Bly's Monkey: His Remarkable Story in His Own Words''
*1997 ''One Very Best Valentine's Day''
*1998 ''Bedtime!''
*1999 ''Hello, Shoes!''
*2007 ''Letters From the Corrugated Castle''
Notes
References
External links
Joan Blos Ann Arbor Book Festival website. Retrieved July 2, 2006.
About Joan W. Blos – Biography HarperCollins Publishers website. Retrieved July 2, 2006.