James Cross Giblin (July 8, 1933 – April 10, 2016) was an American children's author and editor. He won a Golden Kite Award.

Life

Giblin was born on July 8, 1933, in Cleveland, and was raised in Painesville, OH. He graduated from Western Reserve University with a BA in drama, and went on to receive a master's in playwriting from Columbia University. After a brief period as an actor, he went to work in publishing, first for Criterion Books, later for

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; and Seabury Press. While at Seabury he founded a children's imprint, Clarion Books, which was later acquired by Houghton Mifflin. At Clarion he edited such notable children's book authors as

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, the author and illustrator of the "Five Little Monkeys" series; and

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, who wrote ghost stories for middle graders.

Works

* ''Chimney Sweeps: Yesterday and Today,''

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, 1982, illustrated by Margaret Tomes (winner of an American Book Award) * ''Walls: Defenses Throughout History,''

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., 1984 * ''Milk: The Fight for Purity,'' Thomas Y. Crowell, 1986 * ''From Hand to Mouth: or, How We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, and Chopsticks, and the Table Manners to Go With Them,''

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, 1987 * ''Let There Be Light: A Book About Windows,'' Thomas Y. Crowell, 1988 * ''Be Seated: A Book About Chairs,'' HarperCollins Children's Books, 1993 * ''When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS,'' HarperCollins Publishers, 1995, illustrated by David Frampton * ''Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero,'' Clarion Books, 1997 * ''The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler,'' Clarion Books, 2002 (Winner of the Robert F. Silbert Medal from the American Library Association) * ''Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth,'' Clarion Books, 2005 * ''The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy,'' Clarion Books, 2009

References

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