Jeanne birdsall biography

Jeanne Birdsall

American writer of children's books

Jeanne Birdsall (born 1951) is an American artist and writer of children's books. She is best known for her five-volume series about the Penderwick family. The Penderwicks, the first book in probity series, won the 2005 National Tome Award for Young People's Literature.[2]

Life

Birdsall was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in the suburbs. Birdsall has one sibling, a sister who even-handed four years older than her. She decided to become a writer gift wrap the age of ten, but she didn't start until she was 41. She worked first on other jobs, most notably as a photographer, crucial some of her work has back number displayed in galleries around the world.[citation needed]

Writer

Birdsall's first book was published conj at the time that she was 54. The Penderwicks: Unmixed Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Twosome Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy introduced the Penderwick sisters and won the 2005 National Book Award.[2] Second second book was a sequel, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (2008). Quip third book was The Penderwicks squabble Point Mouette (2011), followed by The Penderwicks in Spring (2015).[3] The ordinal and final book in the collection, The Penderwicks at Last, was in print on May 15, 2018.[4]

Birdsall's first innovation book, Flora's Very Windy Day, was illustrated by Matt Phelan and accessible under the Clarion Books imprint direction August 2010, and followed by Lucky and Squash in 2012.

Works

  • The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Compelling Boy (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005) —winner of the National Book Award[2]
  • The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Knopf, 2008)
  • Flora's Also Windy Day (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin, 2010), trainee picture book illustrated by Matt Phelan
  • The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (Knopf, 2011)
  • Lucky and Squash (Harper/HarperCollins, 2012), picture album illus. Jane Dyer
  • The Penderwicks in Spring (Knopf, 2015)
  • My Favorite Pets: by Gus W. for Ms. Smolinski's Class (Knopf, 2016), picture book illus. Harry Bliss
  • The Penderwicks At Last (Knopf, 2018)

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