Pat McKissack (1944–2017)
Autor von A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859
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Patricia C. McKissack was born in Smyrna, Tennessee on August 9, 1944. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Tennessee State University in 1964 and a master's degree in early childhood literature and media programming from Webster University in 1975. After college, she worked as a junior mehr anzeigen high school English teacher and a children's book editor at Concordia Publishing. Since the 1980's, she and her husband Frederick L. McKissack have written over 100 books together. Most of their titles are biographies with a strong focus on African-American themes for young readers. Their early 1990s biography series, Great African Americans included volumes on Frederick Douglass, Marian Anderson, and Paul Robeson. Their other works included Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers and Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States. Over their 30 years of writing together, the couple won many awards including the C.S. Lewis Silver Medal, a Newbery Honor, nine Coretta Scott King Author and Honor awards, the Jane Addams Peace Award, and the NAACP Image Award for Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?. In 1998, they received the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. She also writes fiction on her own. Her book included Flossie and the Fox, Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt, A Friendship for Today, and Let's Clap, Jump, Sing and Shout; Dance, Spin and Turn It Out! She won the Newberry Honor Book Award and the King Author Award for The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural in 1993 and the Caldecott Medal for Mirandy and Brother Wind. She dead of cardio-respiratory arrest on April 7, 2017 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Pat McKissack
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859 (1997) 1,819 Exemplare
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 (2000) 1,013 Exemplare
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony, 1763 (2004) 326 Exemplare
Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs, and Stories from an African American… (2017) 64 Exemplare
Give It With Love, Christopher: Christopher Learns About Gifts and Giving (Christopher Books) (1988) 24 Exemplare
Speak Up, Christopher: Christopher Learns the Difference Between Right and Wrong (Christopher Books) (1988) 13 Exemplare
JESSIE JACKSON 2 Exemplare
JESSE JACKSON 2 Exemplare
Messy Bessy 2 Exemplare
Messy Bessy's Holidays 2 Exemplare
messy besseys family reunion 1 Exemplar
A Million Fish... More of Less 1 Exemplar
Let My People Go 1 Exemplar
Nettie Jo's Friends 1 Exemplar
Scraps of Time 1960 1 Exemplar
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The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Autor — 1,548 Exemplare
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust (1995) — Vorwort — 679 Exemplare
One More Valley, One More Hill: The Story of Aunt Clara Brown (Landmark Books) (2002) — Einführung — 51 Exemplare
Curious George Rides a Bike... and More Tales of Mischief [1991 film] (2013) — Erzähler — 22 Exemplare
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- Andere Namen
- McKissack, Patricia C.
Carwell, L'Ann
Carwell, Patricia L'Ann (birth name)
Carwell, Patricia Leanna
McKissack, Patricia L'Ann Carwell - Geburtstag
- 1944-08-09
- Todestag
- 2017-04-07
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Smyrna, Tennessee, USA
- Sterbeort
- Bridgeton, Missouri, USA
- Todesursache
- cardiorespiratory arrest
- Wohnorte
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Chesterfield, Missouri, USA - Ausbildung
- Tennessee State University (BA ∙ English ∙ 1964)
Webster University (MA ∙ Early Childhood Literature ∙ 1975) - Berufe
- teacher
children's book editor
author - Beziehungen
- McKissack, Fredrick (spouse | 1964-12-12)
McKissack Jr., Fredrick L. (son)
McKissack, Lisa Beringer (daughter-in-law)
McKissack, John (son)
McKissack, Robert (son) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Coretta Scott King Awards ( [1995])
Coretta Scott King Awards ( [1993])
Coretta Scott King Awards ( [1990])
Regina Medal (1998)
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award (2014)
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Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers (Honor Book – Secondary Level – 2000)
Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Outstanding Merit – Secondary Level – 1996)
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