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003 Dr. Seuss - One Minute History
Theodor Seuss Geisel is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. At twenty one, he publishes his first cartoon under the pen name “Dr. Seuss”; his mother’s maiden name, pronounced ‘Zoice!’. Theodor marries and begins working as an illustrator...
One Minute History
Dr. Seuss - Epic Artist Series - Children's Book Legends - One Minute History
Theodor Seuss Geisel is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. At twenty-one, he publishes his first cartoon under the pen name “Dr Seuss”; his mother’s maiden name, pronounced ‘Zoice!’. Theodor marries and begins working as an illustrator...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Jerry Pinkney Interview
Jerry Pinkney is interviewed in this series of video clips. Biographical details, lists of works and transcripts of the interviews are available.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Peter Sis
Czechoslovakian-born writer and illustrator Peter Sis shares his thoughts on his childhood and his work here in the United States in this video interview. Transcript and biographical details are also available.
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Rutgers in Newark: Interview With Rutgers University Newark Alumna Judith Viorst
An excellent interview with Judith Viorst. She talks about her background, her education, and the changes she saw when she returned to Rutgers University as an adult. She then discusses her life as a writer, how she became a published...
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Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Expert: Author/illustrator, Tim Reed
Meet Clubhouse Expert, Tim Reed, author and illustrator of My Very Silly Monster children's book series. This clip shows the tools he uses for illustrating his books and talks about the highlights of being an author. He also teaches the...
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Outside the Book: George Ella Lyon
This Outside the Book video episode features an interview with George Ella Lyon, an adult and children's book author. She expresses her approaches to writing and gives a brief overview of The Pirate of Kindergarten, one of her most...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Bruce Degen
Watch while the illustrator of the popular Magic School Bus books talks about his love of art since childhood, how he and the series' author Joanna Cole work together and what's coming next for Ms. Frizzle's class.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: David Shannon
Watch while this author and illustrator of the "No, David!" books talks about how he creates his books. Consider where he gets story ideas and his advice to teachers as a former student troublemaker.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Eric Carle
Watch while this author and illustrator of many classic children's books like "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" talks about his art career, why some books take longer to make than others and why he opened a picture book museum.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mark Teague
Watch while this author/illustrator talks about his lifelong love of storytelling, how illustrating is like acting and how he likes to find humor in the everyday events of childhood.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mo Willems
Watch while this Caldecott-winner talks about creating his own cartoons when he was young, making animations for Sesame Street and what it was like moving from television to writing children's books.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Pamela Duncan Edwards
Watch while this author of alliterative children's books like "Some Smug Slug" talks about writing with rich vocabulary and working with illustrator Henry Cole to create animal characters.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Rosemary Wells
Rosemary Wells talks about her career in this video interview. Site includes biographical information, a transcript and a selected book list.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Ann Hoberman
Mary Ann Hoberman is the author of more than 40 books for children, including A House Is a House for Me and the popular shared reading series, You Read to Me, I'll Read to You. Whether writing about llamas in pajamas or a raucous auk,...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Marla Frazee
Ever since elementary school, Marla Frazee knew that she wanted to illustrate children's books. Now she lives her childhood dream, stepping into her backyard studio each morning to do what she loves. Frazee has illustrated Sarah...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Marilyn Singer
Marilyn Singer has written all kinds of great books for children and young adults - picture books, fairy tales, mysteries, non-fiction, and novels - but poetry is her favorite genre. Singer is on a mission to "knock poetry off its...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series follows siblings Jack and Annie as they travel to distant times and places with the help of their magic tree house. To accompany these fiction books, Mary Pope Osborne also co-authors...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Amato
Mary Amato writes stories, poems, plays, and songs for children and young adults. Amato both writes and teaches writing to both students and teachers. Watch the interview to learn more about her and read a short biography about her life....
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Matthew Holm
Matt Holm has always loved to draw, especially comics. With his sister Jennifer Holm, he co-created two enormously popular graphic novels series - one featuring a pink-obsessed mouse (Babymouse) and another starring a brave amoeba...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Quattlebaum
Mary Quattlebaum is known for her pirate stories, such as her 2011 book, Pirate vs. Pirate, a blustery adventure pitting Mean Mo against Bad Bart to determine who has the most impressive pirate skills. Other titles celebrate nature or...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Matthew Cordell
Matthew Cordell writes and illustrates picture books and chapter books for children. His nearly wordless picture book, Wolf in the Snow, was awarded the 2018 Caldecott Medal. He has written and illustrated many popular (and often very...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Brigid Barrett
Mary Brigid Barrett is a children's book author and illustrator a professional educator, and mom of three artistic and book-loving children. Watch the interview to learn more about her and read a short biography about her life. Includes...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mem Fox
Mem Fox is Australia's best-known children's book author. Her books are tremendously popular in the US as well, and she has traveled widely as a writer, teacher, and passionate proponent of reading aloud to children. Watch the interview...