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C S Adler

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Language
  
English

Name
  
C. Adler


Genre
  
children's books

Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Author

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Born
  
Carole Schwerdtfeger Adler February 23, 1932 New York

Occupation
  
teacher, children's author

Notable awards
  
William Allen White Award and the Golden Kite Award for The Magic of Glits

Awards
  
Golden Kite Award for Fiction

Books
  
Ghost Brother, The Magic of the Glits, Good‑bye - Pink Pig, The cat that was left behind, One Unhappy Horse

Notable works
  
The Magic of the Glits

C.S. (Carole Schwerdtfeger) Adler (born February 23, 1932) is an American children's book author. She has been a full-time writer since the publication of her first book, The Magic of the Glits, in 1979. That book won both the William Allen White Award and the Golden Kite Award.

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Books

She has since published 43 more books for young readers. Many of her books have been on state lists and have also been published in Japan, Germany, England, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, and France.

Book awards

  • The Magic of the Glits won both the William Allen White Award and the Golden Kite Award.
  • The Shell Lady's Daughter was chosen by the A.L.A. as one of the best young adult books of 1983.
  • With Westie and the Tin Man won the Children's Book Award of the Child Study Committee in 1986.
  • Split Sisters & Ghost Brother were I.R.A. Children's Choices selections.
  • One Sister Too Many was on the 1991 Young Adults' Choices list.
  • Always and Forever Friends & Eddie's Blue Winged Dragon were on the 1991 I.R.A. 99 Favorite Paperbacks list.
  • One Unhappy Horse was the ASPCA Henry Berg Award in 2002.

    • Background and personal life

    Adler moved to Tucson, Arizona, after spending most of her life in upstate New York, where before publishing she was a middle school English teacher in the Niskayuna school district, for nearly a decade.

    References

    C. S. Adler Wikipedia
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