Juanita Havill (born 1949) is an American children's
picture book
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author best known for the ''Jamaica'' books. She has also written a
young adult
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novel, ''Eyes Like Willy's''. She was born in
Evansville, Indiana
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and raised in
Mount Carmel, Illinois
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. She is currently living in
Arizona
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.
Bibliography
*''I Heard It from Alice Zucchini: Poems About the Garden'' (2006)
*''Eyes Like Willy's'' (2004)
*''Jamaica's Blue Marker'' (2003)
*''Brianna, Jamaica, and the Dance of Spring'' (2002)
*''Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher'' (2001)
*''Jamaica's Find'' (1998),
Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats (né Jacob Ezra Katz; March 11, 1916 – May 6, 1983) was an American people, American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the 1963 Caldecott Medal for illustrating ''The Snowy Day'', which he also wrote. Keats wr ...
New Writer Award (1987)
*''Jamaica and Brianna'' (1996)
*''Jennifer, Too'' (1995)
*''Saving Owen's Toad'' (1994)
*''Kentucky Troll'' (1993)
*''Leona and Ike'' (1992)
*''The Magic Fort'' (1991)
*''It Always Happens to Leona'' (1989)
*''You Always in My Mind Like Always''
References
External links
Interview with Juanita Havill ''All About Kids! TV Series'' #9 (1988)
American children's writers
Living people
1949 births
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