Deborah Hopkinson

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Personal life and education

Hopkinson was born February 4, 1952, in Lowell, Massachusetts[2] to Russell W. and Gloria D. Hopkinson.[1]

She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1973 and a Master of Arts from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1978.[1]

Hopkinson is married to Andrew D. Thomas, and the couple has two children: Rebekah and Dimitri.[1] She presently lives near Portland, Oregon.[3]

Career

Before writing full-time, Hopkinson worked as a philanthropic fundraiser with Oregon State University, Whitman College, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[4] From 1981 to 1984, she served as the marketing director for the Manoa Valley Theater in Honolulu.[4] Afterwards, she worked as a development director at the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation (1985 to 1989), then the East–West Center in Honolulu (1989 to 1994).[4] For the next decade, she was the director of grants at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, after which she served as the director for foundation relations for the Oregon State University Foundation in Corvallis, Oregon.[4]

Hopkinson published her first book in 1993 and has since published more than 70 books for children, including the Sibert Honor title, Titanic: Voices from the Disaster.

Awards and honors

Twenty-three of Hopkinson's books are Junior Library Guild selections:

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In 2012, Titanic: Voices from the Disaster was named one of the best nonfiction children's books of the year by The Horn Book Magazine.[5]

In 2017, Booklist included Steamboat School on their "Top 10 Historical Fiction for Youth" list.[6]

In 2019, Carter Reads the Newspaper was named one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Public Library and the New York Public Library.[7]

The Story of a Story was included in the Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices 2021.[8]

Awards for Hopkinson's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
1994 Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt International Reading Association Book Award for Younger Readers Winner [9]
2000 Template:Sort ALSC Notable Children's Book Selection [10]
Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text Winner [11]
Jane Addams Children's Book Award: Picture Book Honor [12]
2004 Girl Wonder Jane Addams Children's Book Award: Picture Book Honor [12]
Shutting Out the Sky Jane Addams Children's Book Award: Book for Older Children Honor [12]
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Honor [13]
2005 Apples to Oregon ALSC Notable Children's Book Selection [14]
Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text Winner
Spur Award for Storyteller Winner [15]
2006 Sky Boys Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor [16]
2007 Up Before Daybreak Carter G. Woodson Book Award: Middle Level Honor [17]
2008 Abe Lincoln Crosses A Creek Cybils Award for Fiction Picture book Finalist [18]
2009 ALSC Notable Children's Book Selection [19]
2009–2010 Keep On! Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Winner
2012 Titanic: Voices From the Disaster Cybils Award for Nonfiction Middle Grade & Young Adult Finalist [20]
Oregon Spirit Award for Nonfiction Honor [21]
2013 Template:Sort Oregon Spirit Award for Middle Reader Winner [21]
Knit Your Bit Oregon Spirit Award for Picture Books Winner [21]
Annie and Helen Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Finalist [22][23]
Template:Sort Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Nominee [24]
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster ALSC Notable Children's Book Selection [25]
Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Nominee [24]
Sibert Medal Honor [26]
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist [27]
2014 Knit Your Bit Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Finalist [28]
2015 Courage & Defiance Oregon Spirit Award for Nonfiction Winner [21]
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2016 Courage & Defiance NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Recommended [30]
Dive! Oregon Spirit Award for Nonfiction Honor [21]
Template:Sort Mathical Honor [31]
Steamboat School Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth Selection [32]
2017 Template:Sort Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature Nominee [33]
NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Recommended [34]
Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Nominee [33]
Courage & Defiance Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature Finalist [35]
Dive! NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Recommended [30]
Follow the Moon Home Green Book Award for Picture Book Winner [36]
Steamboat School Association for Library Service to Children Notable Children's Book Selection [37]
Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Finalist [38]
Jane Addams Children's Book Award: Book for Younger Children Winner [39][40]
2018 Dive! Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature Nominee [41]
Independence Cake Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Nominee [41]
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2019 Carter Reads the Newspaper Oregon Spirit Award for Nonfiction Honor [21]
D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Nominee [42]
Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Finalist [43]
2020 Butterflies Belong Here Oregon Spirit Award for Picture Books Honor [21]
Carter Reads the Newspaper ALSC Notable Children's Book Selection [44]
Carter G. Woodson Book Award: Elementary Level Honor [17]
Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Finalist [45]
How I Became a Spy Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature Winner [46][47]
Under the Bodhi Tree Independent Publisher Bronze Award for Children’s Picture Books [48]
2021 Butterflies Belong Here Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature Finalist [49]
Green Book Award Winner [36]
We Had to Be Brave Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature Finalist [49]
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Recommended [30]
2022 We Must Not Forget Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature Finalist [50]
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Recommended [51]

Selected books

Picture books

Early Readers

  • Birdie’s Lighthouse, illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root (1997)
  • Maria’s Comet, illustrated by Deborah Lanino (1999)
  • A Band of Angels, illustrated by Raúl Colón (2002)
  • Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings, illustrated by Terry Widener (2003)
  • Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (2004)
  • Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall Thin Tale, illustrated by John Hendrix (2008)
  • Annie and Helen, illustrated by Raúl Colón (2012)
  • Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story, illustrated by Steven Guarnaccia (2013)
  • Philippe Cousteau illustrated by Meilo So (2016)
  • Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig, illustrated by Charlotte Voake (2016)
  • A Letter to My Teacher, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (2017)
  • Under the Bodhi Tree: A Story of the Buddha, illustrated by Kailey Whitman (2018)
  • Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl, illustrated by Qin Leng (2018)
  • Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies, illustrated by Meilo So (2020)
  • My Little Golden Book about Dolly Parton (2021)
  • My Little Golden Book about Betty White (2021)
  • The Story of a Story, illustrated by Hadley Hooper (2021)
  • Cinderella and a Mouse Called Fred, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (2023)
  • Happy Earth Day! (2023)

Middle Grade

  • Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, A Shirtwaist Worker, New York City, 1909 (2004)
  • The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (2013)
  • Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark (2015)
  • A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket (2016)
  • Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (2016)
  • D‑Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History (2018)
  • The Deadliest Diseases Then and Now (2021)
  • We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance (2021)
  • The Deadliest Fires Then and Now (2022)
  • The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (2022)

See also

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References

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