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Literary Agent:
Ken Wright
Writer's House
212-685-2400
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
2011Tayshas Reading List (2011)
Int'l 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)
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
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
SCBWI Golden Kite, Nonfiction
ALA Best Books for Young Adults –Top Ten
ALA Notable Book
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
SCBWI Golden Kite, Nonfiction Honor
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 Nonfiction
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary (Viking 2009)
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking, 2005)
This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Viking, 2002)
Restless Spirit: the Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Viking, 1998)
Adult Nonfiction
Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge (Heyday Press, 2003) Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Smithsonian University Press, 1993)
Novels
Dogtag Summer. (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2011)
Clara and the Hoodoo Man. (Dutton Children's Books, 1996)
Picture Books
Big Cat Pepper Illustrated by Lauren Castille. (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2009)
Whistling. Illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines. (Harper Collins, 2003)
Kogi's Mysterious Journey. Illustrated by Aki Sogabi. (Dutton Children's Books, 2003)
Moon Glowing. Illustrated by Joan Paley.(Dutton Children's Books, 2002)
Oranges on Golden Mountain. Illustrated by Aki Sogabi. (Dutton Children's Books, 2002)
Pigs Eggs. Illustrated by Martha Weston. (Globe Books, 2000)
Essays/Short Stories
"This Was America, 1960," John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address. (Viking, 2010)
"Looking for America," Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places. (Viking, 2003)
Short Biography
Elizabeth Partridge graduated with a degree in Women's Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and later studied traditional Chinese medicine. She was an acupuncturist for more than twenty years before closing her medical practice to write full-time.
Elizabeth is the acclaimed author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including Marching to Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary, as well as biographies of Dorothea Lange, Woody Guthrie, and John Lennon. Her books have received many honors, including National Book Award Finalist, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Michael L. Printz Honor, and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. Elizabeth is on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults.
Very Official Biography
Elizabeth Partridge is the author of more than a dozen books, from young adult nonfiction to picture books to photography books. Her books include Marching for Freedom (2009, Viking), as well the biographies John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (2005, Viking), 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). Her latest book is the middle grade novel, Dogtag Summer (Bloomsbury, 2011).
Elizabeth is a National Book Award Finalist, and has received the ALA Michael L. Printz Honor Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the SCBWI Golden Kite, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.
Elizabeth is on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults. She chaired the National Book Award Committee for Young People’s Literature, (2007), and has served on the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Committee and the SCBWI Golden Kite Award committee.
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