Meet the Author
Written by popular and award-winning writers of CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Telling their stories – from childhood interests to adult careers – writing books for children
An Author Visit in Every Book — Great Collection to Inform & Inspire Students to Become Readers and Writers – Now 6 Are Available in Softcover!
Give children an inside view of the writing process with these 27 popular and award-winning author autobiographies, written especially for grades 2-5. Engaging text and fascinating, full-color photographs invite children to see how their favorite authors turn ideas into books, and how they organize their writing days. Students will learn what is involved in developing a story, editing and revising, and how the authors became writers.
Meet the Author books are:
- Excellent resources to engage your students in the writing process
- Perfect for author studies
- Authentic models of good writing inspiring to young writers
- Hardcover and softcover selections
F/P Level: O
Grade Level: 2-5
Page Count: 32
Word Count: 250+
Paperback Single = $9.00
Hardcover Single = $14.95
(Also see: Author At Work Collection for Grades 4-7)
Item#: A727PB
Laura Numeroff
Author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Dogs Don’t Wear Sneakers, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, and more.
Featured in this package:
Item#: A736PB
Patricia Polacco
Author of The Keeping Quilt; The Blessing Cup; Fiona’s Lace; Bully; Rechenka’s Eggs; Thank you, Mr. Falker; Mrs. Katz and Tush and more.
Item#: A702PB
Cynthia Rylant
Author of the Henry and Mudge stories, Newbery Award winner Missing May, and Caldecott Honor book I Was Young in the Mountains and more.
Featured in this package:
Item#: A725PB
Seymour Simon
Author of outstanding nonfiction books Tornadoes and Seymour Simon’s Book of Trucks and more.
Featured in this package:
Item #: A735PB
Janet Wong
Poet/Author of more than twenty-five books for children and young adults, and winner of the 2021 NCTE Excellence in Poetry for Children Award.
Item#: A701PB
Jane Yolen
Author of Caldecott Medal winner Owl Moon and more.
Featured in this package:
MTA REVIEWS:
“If you give an author a pencil, he or she may just write an autobiographical series like this one! The books feature popular and award-winning writers who share their lives and model the writing process.”
—Learning Magazine Spring
Item#: 714 – Out of Stock
Item#: 731
Item#: 706
MTA REVIEWS:
“… instead of showing them the tiny picture of the author on the book jacket, you can hand the kids one of these treasures and say ‘Want to meet the author?'”
—Teaching K-8
MTA REVIEWS:
“Entertaining and informal, this series is the next best thing to meeting a live author.”
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
MTA REVIEWS:
“These autobiographical accounts read like conversations with familiar friends. The authors’ words draw readers into their lives, and the excellent full-color photographs of home, working environment, and family help children participate in their worlds.”
—School Library Journal
MTA REVIEWS:
“These are attractively formatted picture book autobiographies, liberally sprinkled with full-color photographs and ideally suited to those younger students who are curious about their favorite authors.”
—Horn Book
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