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Language
  
English

Name
  
Tor Seidler

Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Author


Period
  
1979–present

Education
  
Movies
  
A Rat’s Tale


Occupation
  
Novelist, short story writer

Notable works
  
A Rat's TaleThe Wainscott Weasel

Nominations
  
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, National Book Award for Young People's Literature

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Books
  
The Wainscott Weasel, Mean Margaret, A rat's tale, Brainboy and the DeathMaster, The dulcimer boy

Firstborn/Tor Seidler Nature Generation


Tor Seidler (born 1952 in Littleton, New Hampshire) is an American author of children's literature. Many of his books feature anthropomorphic animals. Mean Margaret was nominated for a National Book Award, The Wainscott Weasel was named a Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association, and A Rat's Tale was named Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. In 1998, A Rat's Tale was adapted into a puppet film by Augsburger Puppenkiste and distributed by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment. 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios planned to adapt The Wainscott Weasel into a movie, which started development in 2003. However, Fox shelved the concept in 2006.

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He studied literature at Stanford University.

Published books

  • The Dulcimer Boy (1979)
  • Terpin (1982)
  • A Rat's Tale (1985)
  • The Tar Pit (1987)
  • Take a Good Look (1990)
  • The Steadfast Tin Soldier (HarperCollins, 1992) – picture book illustrated by Fred Marcellino, retelling the 1838 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, LCCN 92-52690
  • The Wainscott Weasel (1993)
  • Mean Margaret (1997)
  • The Silent Spinbills (1998)
  • The Revenge of Randal Reese-Rat (2001)
  • The Brothers Below Zero (2002)
  • Brain Boy and the Death Master (2003)
  • Toes (2006)
  • Gully's Travels (Scholastic, 2008), OCLC 192081861
  • Firstborn (2015)
  • References

    Tor Seidler Wikipedia


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