Kathi Appelt
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Kathi Appelt (born July 6, 1954)[1] is an American author of more than forty books for children and young adults.[2] She won the annual PEN USA award for Children's Literature recognizing The Underneath (2008).[3]
Biography
Kathi Appelt was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina,[1] and grew up in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University and lives in College Station, Texas.[4]
Appelt is the author of more than 30 books. She writes novels, picture books, poetry, and nonfiction for children and young adults.[5] Her books have been translated into several languages: Spanish, Chinese, French, and Swedish.[6] She is emerita faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.[7]
Her first novel was The Underneath, illustrated by David Small and published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. It features a cat and dog who live mainly beneath an old house in the Louisiana–Texas bayou. For that work she received the annual Children's Literature award from PEN Center USA[3] and she was also a runner-up for the National Book Award (National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist)[8] and the American Library Association Newbery Medal (Newbery Honor Book).[9]
Her papers are held in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi (unprocessed manuscripts collection, 1985–2005).[10]
Selected works
- Someone’s Come to Our House, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Eerdmans, 1999)[11]
- The Alley Cat's Meow, illustrated by Jon Goodell (Harcourt, 2002)
- Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start (Henry Holt and Co., 2002)
- The Underneath, illustrated by David Small (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
- Brand-New Baby Blues, illustrated by Kelly Murphy (HarperCollins, 2009)
- Keeper, illus. August Hall (Atheneum Books, 2010)
- The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013)
- Maybe a Fox, illus. Alison McGee (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2016)
- Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, co-authored by Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer (HarperCollins, 2001; Purple House Press 2019)
- Max Attacks, illus. Penelope Dullaghan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)
- Angel Thieves (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2019)
References
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- ↑ a b "Kathi Appelt – Summary Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
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- ↑ a b "2009 Lit Awards". PEN Center USA (penusa.org). Archived 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
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- ↑ "2008 National Book Award Finalist, Young People's Literature: Kathi Appelt" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. National Book Foundation. With linked interview transcript.
- ↑ "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association.
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