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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Greg Tang
Greg Tang was born in Ithaca, New York, where his father taught electrical engineering at Cornell University and his mother taught math at Ithaca College. Greg grew up playing games with his two sisters, such as cards and chess, that...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Rosemary Wells
Born in New York City, Rosemary Wells grew up in a house "filled with books, dogs, and nineteenth-century music." "When I was two years old I began to draw and they saw right away the career that lay ahead of me and encouraged me every...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Janet Wong
Janet Wong was born in Los Angeles in 1962. She was the daughter of a Chinese father and a Korean mother. While growing up in California, she enjoyed watching TV with her dad, playing with her friends, catching lizards, and riding her...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Jacqueline Woodson
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She now writes full-time and has recently received the Margaret A. Edwards Award...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep grew up in an African-American neighborhood in San Francisco in the 1950s. His father worked long hours in their corner grocery store, often with the help of Laurence and his brother. Laurence bussed to a bilingual Jesuit...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen was born in New York City in 1939. Both of her parents were writers and so were most of their friends. While still in preschool, Jane composed her first poem. "I love to recite my first poem to kids when I talk to them -...
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Ad lit.org: Webinar: Making Room for Adolescent Literacy
This four-part webcast examines what research says about good practice and how building-level leaders and classroom teachers can support struggling readers/writers while dealing with budget, scheduling, accountability, training, and...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney is the best-selling author and illustrator of the wildly popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, featuring the everyday life of the very relatable adolescent Greg Heffley.
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Chris D'lacey
Chris d'Lacey was born in Malta but moved with his family to Leicester, England, when he was a child. Growing up, he loved to play soccer and appear in school plays. In fact, his book The Prompter is based on his own experience in a...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Paul Stewart is an award-winning author of books for young readers - everything from picture books to football stories, fantasy and horror. His first book was published in 1988 and he has since had over fifty titles published.
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Charles Smith
Charles R. Smith, Jr. was born and raised in California. As a child he spent a lot of time reading books and poetry and playing basketball, but during his stint on the high school yearbook committee he fell in love with photography and...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania in 1941. He grew up playing a wide variety of sports, including soccer and baseball. For years Jerry dreamed of becoming a major league baseball player. Yet during high school, two...
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Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Margaret Peterson Haddix
Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm in a small town in Ohio, in a family of farmers and bookworms, and she read widely: classic fiction, but also the newspaper and Time magazine. She also found time to participate in activities...