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Email Elizabeth:
elizabeth@elizabethpartridge.com
Viking Books Publicist:
Sara Zick
212-414-3561
Literary Agent:
Ken Wright
Writer's House
212-685-2400
Email Elizabeth:
elizabeth@elizabethpartridge.com
Viking Books Publicist:
Sara Zick
212-414-3561
Literary Agent:
Ken Wright
Writer's House
212-685-2400
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Marching for Freedom:
Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature
Jane Addams Children's Book Award
School Library Journal's Battle of the Books
International Reading Association Teachers’ Choice
Children’s Book Council 2010: Notable Social Studies Trade Books
International Reading Association 2010 Notable Books for a Global Society
Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books for Children
ALA Notable Children’s Book
ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth
Horn Book Fanfare Choice
Kirkus Reviews Best Children and YA Books of 2009
Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Books of 2009
School Library Journal Best Books of the Year (2009)
Booklist’s Top Ten Black History Books for Youth
New York Public Library’s Children’s Books 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
California Book Award: Young Adult Finalist
Pennsylvania School Librarians Association YA Top Forty (2009)
Link to PDF of Marching Awards
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth
Michael L. Printz 2006 Honor Book
ALA Best Books for Young Adults
School Library Journal Best Books
Booklist Editor’s Choice
Horn Book Fanfare
BCCB Blue Ribbon
Kirkus Best Books
This Land Was Made for You and Me:
The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
National Book Award Finalist
ALA Best Books for Young Adults –Top Ten
ALA Notable Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
School Library Journal Best Books
Booklist Editor’s Choice
Horn Book Fanfare
BCCB Blue Ribbon
Publisher's Weekly Best Books of the Year
New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
Jane Addams Honor Book
Golden Kite Honor (SCBWI)
ALA Best Books for Young Adults
ALA Notable Book
Booklist Editor’s Choice
Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
Kogi’s Mysterious Journey
CBC-Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young Readers
New York Public Library’s Children’s Books: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2003
Clara and the Hoodoo Man
Women's National Book Association, Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Award
Young Adult Books
Restless Spirit: the Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Viking, 1998)
This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Viking, 2002)
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking, 2005)
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary (Viking 2009)
Adult Books
Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Smithsonian University Press, 1993)
Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge (Heyday Press, 2003)
Children’s Books
Clara and the Hoodoo Man (Dutton, 1996)
Pig's Eggs (Golden Books, 2000)
Oranges on Golden Mountain (Dutton, 2001)
Annie and Bo (Dutton, 2002)
Moon Glowing (Dutton, 2002)
Whistling (Harper Collins, 2003)
Big Cat Pepper (Bloomsbury, 2009)
Super Short
Elizabeth Partridge is the award-winning author of non-fiction books for teens. Her latest book, Marching for Freedom (Viking) focuses on the courageous children who marched alongside King in the 1965 march to Montgomery for the vote.
Still Pretty Short
Elizabeth Partridge is the award-winning author more than a dozen books. She’s a National Book Award finalist, and has received the ALA Michael L. Printz Honor Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the SCBWI Golden Kite.
Her latest book is Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Get Weary (Viking, 2009). Elizabeth has chaired the National Book Award committee for Young People’s Literature and is a frequent
speaker at national conferences for teachers, librarians and writers.
A Little Longer
Elizabeth Partridge is the award-winning author more than a dozen books, from picture books to young adult nonfiction to photography books. Her books include the biographies John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking 2005), This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie (2002 Viking), and Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Viking 1999).
Elizabeth is a National Book Award finalist, and has received the ALA Michael L. Printz Honor Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the SCBWI Golden Kite. Her latest book, Marching for Freedom (Viking) focuses on the courageous children who marched alongside King in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery for the vote. She’s chaired the National Book Award committee for Young People’s Literature and is a frequent speaker at national conferences for teachers, librarians, and writers.
I love researching and writing books, both fiction and nonfiction. I'm fascinated by courageous, artistic people. I also love to speak at schools and conferences.
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