Name Arnold Adoff Role Writer | ||
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Children Jaime Levi Adoff, Leigh Hamilton Adoff Awards Jane Addams Children's Book Award Books Black is brown is tan, Street music, I Am the Darker Brother, All the Colors of the Race, Slow dance heart bre Similar People Virginia Hamilton, John Steptoe, Catherine Amy Dawson, John Galsworthy | ||
Dreamextreme performance of the arnold adoff poem street music
Arnold Adoff (born July 16, 1935, in Bronx, New York) is an American children's writer. In 1988, the National Council of Teachers of English gave Adoff the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. He has said, "I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems."
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- Dreamextreme performance of the arnold adoff poem street music
- Ncte children s poet spotlight arnold adoff with lee bennett hopkins
- Biography
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- References
Ncte children s poet spotlight arnold adoff with lee bennett hopkins
Biography
Adoff grew up in the South Bronx, the son of Jewish immigrants from a town near the Polish-Russian border. He enrolled in the Columbia University School of Pharmacy but transferred to City College of New York, where he received a B.A. in history and literature. He married Virginia Hamilton in 1960 and they lived in Europe briefly before moving back to New York City. Adoff taught social studies in Harlem and the Upper West Side of New York. Adoff and Hamilton eventually moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Adoff still lives.
Fiction
