Sobre El Autor
Jon Scieszka was born September 8, 1954 in Flint , Michigan. After he graduated from Culver Military Academy where he was a Lieutenant, he studied to be a doctor at Albion College. He changed career directions and attended Columbia University where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980. mostrar más Before he became a full time writer, Scieszka was a lifeguard, painted factories, houses, and apartments and also wrote for magazines. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years as a 1st grade assistant, a 2nd grade homeroom teacher, and a computer, math, science and history teacher in 3rd - 8th grade. He decided to take off a year from teaching in order to work with Lane Smith, an illustrator, to develop ideas for children's books. His book, The Stinky Cheese Man received the 1994 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. Scieszka's Math Curse, illustrated by Lane Smith, was an American Library Association Notable Book in 1996; a Blue Ribbon Book from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books in 1995; and a Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book in 1995. The Stinky Cheese Man received Georgia's 1997 Children's Choice Award and Wisconsin's The Golden Archer Award. Math Curse received Maine's Student Book Award, The Texas Bluebonnet Award and New Hampshire's The Great Stone Face Book Award in 1997. He was appointed the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress in 2008. In 2014 his title, Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor made The New York Times Best Seller List. Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger made the list in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Jon Scieszka
La Verdadera Historia de los Tres Cerditos! (The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!, Spanish edition) (1989) 12,069 copias, 682 reseñas
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka (2008) 723 copias, 54 reseñas
The Knights of the Kitchen Table / Your Mother Was a Neanderthal / Summer Reading Is Killing Me! / See You Later,… (2000) 47 copias
Can Big Rig Pass? 4 copias
The Knights of the Kitchen Table / The Not-So-Jolly Roger / The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy 3 copias
Jack Is It! 2 copias
Max, the Hot Rod 2 copias
Pete 1 copia
Ted 1 copia
Bioactiunea 1 copia
A Nap 1 copia
Centura Evoblaster 1 copia
The Knights of the Kitchen Table / The Not-So-Jolly Roger / The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy / Summer Reading Is… (2005) 1 copia
The Big Frog Prince 1 copia
Mud Fun 1 copia
Perfect You 1 copia
the time warp trio 1 copia
Rats 1 copia
Thirteen Diddles [short story] 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Autor — 1,633 copias, 14 reseñas
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales (2011) — Contribuidor — 881 copias, 46 reseñas
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel… (2005) — Contribuidor — 669 copias, 13 reseñas
First Kiss (Then Tell): A Collection of True Lip-Locked Moments (2007) — Contribuidor — 94 copias, 3 reseñas
Love & Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life (2015) — Contribuidor — 19 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1954-09-08
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Flint, Michigan, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Flint, Michigan, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Educación
- Albion College
Columbia University
Culver Military Academy - Ocupaciones
- teacher
frequent apartment painter
children's book author - Relaciones
- Scieszka, Shirley (mother), Scieszka, Louis (father), Scieszka, Jarilyn Hansen (wife)
- Premios y honores
- National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2008-2009)
- Agente
- Kathryn Hurley (Penguin)
Steven Malk (Writers House)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Best Satire (1)
Unread books (1)
1980s (1)
At the Library (1)
1990s (1)
Reading Rainbow (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 143
- También por
- 15
- Miembros
- 51,035
- Popularidad
- #300
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 1,893
- ISBNs
- 1,019
- Idiomas
- 12
- Favorito
- 40
Muy interessante el artículo de Cecilia Bajour que se centra en este álbum: "¿Quién es el dueño de la verdad? Los problemas de la ficción en ¡La verdadera historia de los tres cerditos! de Jon Scieszka y Lane Smith" y que se puede leer en aquí: https://www.imaginaria.com.ar/18/8/el-dueno-de-la-verdad.htm… (más)