Joan Blos

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Name Joan Blos Role Writer		Education Vassar College

Awards John Newbery Medal, National Book Award for Children's Books (Hardcover) Books A Gathering of Days, Old Henry, Nellie Bly's Monkey: His Rema, Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme, Brothers of the Heart: A Story of Similar People Stephen Gammell, Catherine Stock, John Newbery

Joan Winsor Blos (born December 9, 1928) is an American writer, teacher and advocate for children's literacy.

For her 1979 historical novel, A Gathering of Days, Blos won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books and the Newbery Medal for the year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature.

She was born in New York City. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Works

1971 Just Think (with Betty Miles)

1979 A Gathering of Days; A New England Girl's Journal, 1830–32

1984 Martin's Hats

1985 Brothers of the Heart: A Story of the Old Northwest, 1837–1838

1988 Old Henry

1989 The Grandpa Days

1989 Lottie's Circus

1991 The Heroine of the Titanic: A Tale Both True and Otherwise of the Life of Molly Brown

1992 A Seed a Flower a Minute, an Hour

1994 Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme

1995 The Hungry Little Boy

1996 Nellie Bly's Monkey: His Remarkable Story in His Own Words

1997 One Very Best Valentine's Day

1998 Bedtime!

1999 Hello, Shoes!

2007 Letters From the Corrugated Castle

References

Joan Blos Wikipedia

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