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Marthe Jocelyn

Autor von Would You

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Marthe Jocelyn is a children's clothing and toy designer. Marth Jocelyn divides her time between Manhattan and Stratford, Ontario, where she lives with her husband, artist Tom Slaughter, and daughters Hannah and Nell.

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Bildnachweis: Photo Credit: Tom Slaughter

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Werke von Marthe Jocelyn

Would You (2008) 188 Exemplare
Folly (2010) 153 Exemplare
How it Happened in Peach Hill (2007) 136 Exemplare
The Body Under the Piano (2020) 126 Exemplare
Hannah's Collections (2000) 121 Exemplare
Same Same (2009) 93 Exemplare
What We Hide (1815) 82 Exemplare
Sam Sorts (2017) 62 Exemplare
Hannah and the Seven Dresses (1999) 55 Exemplare
A Big Dose of Lucky (Secrets) (2015) 50 Exemplare
The Invisible Day (1997) 48 Exemplare
Earthly Astonishments (2000) 45 Exemplare
Over Under (2005) 43 Exemplare
Ones and Twos (1820) 41 Exemplare
Peril at Owl Park (2020) 39 Exemplare
The Dead Man in the Garden (2021) 37 Exemplare
Eats (2007) 36 Exemplare
One Some Many (2004) 34 Exemplare
Viminy Crowe's Comic Book (2014) 31 Exemplare
The Seaside Corpse (2022) — Autor — 29 Exemplare
Where Do You Look? (2013) 25 Exemplare
Ready for Winter (2008) 20 Exemplare
Which Way? (2010) 19 Exemplare
One Patch of Blue (2019) 18 Exemplare
One Yellow Ribbon (2019) 15 Exemplare
Ready for Autumn (2008) 15 Exemplare
Ready for Spring (2008) 15 Exemplare
The Invisible Harry (1998) 15 Exemplare
A Home for Foundlings (2005) 14 Exemplare
Ready for Summer (2008) 13 Exemplare
Mayfly (2004) 13 Exemplare
A Day with Nellie (2002) 13 Exemplare
One Piece of String (2017) 12 Exemplare
One Red Button (2017) 11 Exemplare
The Invisible Enemy (2002) 9 Exemplare
Busy Farm, A 2 Exemplare
Forever Tree, The 2 Exemplare
Sweet Invention, A 1 Exemplar

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Animal Tales: Favorite Stories from Chirp Magazine (2007) — Author & Illustrator — 6 Exemplare
Secrets : 7 ebook set (2015) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Jocelyn, Marthe
Geburtstag
1956
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
Canada
Geburtsort
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Wohnorte
New York, New York, USA
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Berufe
toy designer
children's book author
children's book illustrator
Beziehungen
Slaughter, Tom (husband)
Jocelyn, Tim ( brother)
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children’s Literature (2009)
Kurzbiographie
When I was a child, I liked to read books about ordinary children who stumbled across enchantment. I really thought that if I looked hard enough, I might find a magic nickel or a secret room behind the bookcase or a gnarled gnome whom only I could see. As I grew older, I felt the same thrill of seeing mysteries unveiled when I went to the theatre or read a book. In my childhood activities, I played with dolls way past the normal age, made dioramas out of junk scraps, directed backyard plays with casts of neighborhood kids, and was always, always reading–only as an adult can I clearly see my pursuit of illusion.
When I was 14, I spent a year in a Quaker boarding school in England, encountering a world utterly different from my own, no magic necessary. I learned the advantage of being a stranger; I created a new character for myself, far from my family and not dependent on anyone’s preconceptions. This later fed my approach to fiction: My heroines are small part “me” and large part invention of who I’d like to be, or to have been.
My earliest chapter books (the Invisible trilogy) were about an ordinary child who stumbles across enchantment. My next several books were historical novels (Earthly Astonishments, Mable Riley, and How It Happened in Peach Hill), set in worlds utterly different from my own. It’s easy to see in retrospect that exploring alternate realities began as a game in childhood and eventually became a consuming pastime, otherwise known as research. I love doing research. I depend on what I learn not only for flavor and accuracy of details, but also for the occasional serendipitous discovery that alters the plot of a story.
But then we come to my most recent novel, Would You. It is a complete departure from any of my other stories, because its inception was in the accident that gravely injured my sister when I was 20 years old and she was 27. Paula was hit by a car and remained comatose for several weeks. When she emerged, she was severely brain-damaged and a paraplegic. Ten years later, she was again hit by a car–in her wheelchair–and killed.
Friends were concerned that Would You would be too difficult to write. In fact, it was the easiest book I’ve tackled yet. I didn’t have to worry about plot! The characters are teenagers and the main challenge was to capture their irreverence and humor alongside the tragedy.
The friendship between the sisters, Natalie and Claire, is inspired by that of my own two daughters. As a mother, I delight in the love they have for each other. It is impossible not to think about my own sister and what I have lost. But here I am, 30 years later, having a fine life, and surrounded with the alternate reality that only teenagers can provide. I hope that I have written an elegy for my sister and an homage to my children.

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A neat piece of historical fiction for tweens and younger teens. Interesting setting and characters. Now I need to read the others in this series.
 
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I read this with my son and we both enjoyed it. Fun, seaside mystery with archeology and Agatha Christie nods. We are looking forward to going back and reading the rest of the series now!
 
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