Katherine Paterson

Katherine Paterson è una autrice molto apprezzata di letteratura per giovani adulti, nota soprattutto per il suo romanzo "Bridge to Terabithia". È nata a Qing Jiang, in Cina, da genitori americani che si trasferirono negli Stati Uniti durante la seconda guerra mondiale. L'infanzia di Paterson è stata caratterizzata da frequenti spostamenti a causa del lavoro del padre, e ha trascorso i suoi anni formativi in diverse città della Carolina del Nord, Virginia e Virginia Occidentale.

Il sogno di Paterson di diventare una missionaria l'ha portata a studiare educazione cristiana al grad school, e ha trascorso quattro anni insegnando in campagna in Giappone. Tuttavia, la sua vita ha preso una svolta inaspettata quando ha incontrato il suo futuro marito, un giovane pastore presbiteriano, e tornò negli Stati Uniti. Solo nel 1964 la carriera di scrittura di Paterson è iniziata veramente quando è stata invitata a scrivere materiali didattici per studenti di quinta e sesta elementare dalla chiesa presbiteriana.

Da allora, Paterson è diventata un'autrice acclamata a livello internazionale, con oltre 35 libri per bambini e giovani adulti al suo attivo. Ha vinto numerosi premi per il suo lavoro, tra cui la Medaglia Newbery e il National Book Award, che ha vinto due volte. Paterson ha anche ricevuto la Medaglia Hans Christian Andersen e il Premio Astrid Lindgren per il corpus del suo lavoro. È stata una forte sostenitrice della lettura, dell'istruzione e dell'alfabetizzazione durante tutta la sua carriera e ha prestato servizio come Ambasciatrice Nazionale per la Letteratura per l'Infanzia per la Biblioteca del Congresso.

I libri amati di Paterson, "The Bridge to Terabithia" e "The Great Gilly Hopkins", sono stati adattati in film. Attualmente risiede a Barre, Vermont, con il marito, quattro figli, sette nipoti e il suo cane, Pixie. I fan possono saperne di più su Paterson e sul suo lavoro sul suo sito web.
Marvin Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Smallest Cow in the World 1988
2 Marvin's Best Christmas Present Ever 1997
3 Marvin One Too Many 2001
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 The Sign of the Chrysanthemum 1973
2 Of Nightingales That Weep 1974
3 The Master Puppeteer 1975
4 Bridge to Terabithia 1977
5 The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978
6 Jacob Have I Loved 1980
7 Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom 1983
8 Come Sing, Jimmy Jo 1985
9 Park's Quest 1988
10 Lyddie 1991
11 Flip-Flop Girl 1994
12 Jip: His Story 1996
13 Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight 1998
14 Preacher's Boy 1999
15 The Same Stuff as Stars 2002
16 Bread and Roses, Too 2006
17 The Day of the Pelican 2009
18 The Flint Heart (With: John Paterson) 2011
19 The Flint Heart 2011
20 My Brigadista Year 2017
21 Birdie's Bargain 2021
Chapter Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The King's Equal 1992
2 The Field of the Dogs 2001
Libri illustrati
# Titolo Anno
1 The Tongue-Cut Sparrow 1987
2 The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks 1990
3 The Angel and the Donkey 1996
4 Celia and the Sweet, Sweet Water 1998
5 The Wide-Awake Princess 2000
6 Blueberries for the Queen 2004
7 The Light of the World: The Life of Jesus for Children 2008
8 Brother Sun, Sister Moon 2011
9 Under The Spell Of The Moon 2012
10 The Night of His Birth 2019
Collezioni
# Titolo Anno
1 Angels and Other Strangers: Family Christmas Stories 1979
2 Star of Night 1979
3 Four Favorites from Katherine Paterson 1986
4 Katherine Paterson Treasury 1987
5 A Midnight Clear: Family Christmas Stories 1995
6 A Stubborn Sweetness and Other Stories for the Christmas Season 2013
7 Giving Thanks: Poems, Prayers, and Praise Songs of Thanksgiving 2013
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Gates of Excellence: On Reading and Writing Books for Children 1981
2 Consider the Lilies: Plants of the Bible 1986
3 The Spying Heart: More Thoughts on Reading and Writing Books for Children 1989
4 Who Am I?: Exploring What It Means to Be a Child of God 1992
5 A Sense of Wonder: On Reading and Writing Books for Children 1995
6 Images of God 1998
7 The Invisible Child 2001
8 Read For Your Life #1 2010
9 Stories of My Life 2014
Stephanie S. Tolan Children's Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Liberation of Tansy Warner (By: Stephanie S. Tolan) 1980
2 The Liberation of Tansy Warner 1980
3 Grandpa—and Me 1982
4 Grandpa—and Me (By: Stephanie S. Tolan) 1982
5 A Time to Fly Free (By: Stephanie S. Tolan) 1983
6 A Time to Fly Free 1983
7 Pride of the Peacock (By: Stephanie S. Tolan) 1985
8 Pride of the Peacock 1985
9 Marcy Hooper and the Greatest Treasure in the World 1991
10 Marcy Hooper and the Greatest Treasure in the World (By: Stephanie S. Tolan, Karen Milone) 1991
11 Bridge to Terabithia 1992
12 Bridge to Terabithia (With: Stephanie S. Tolan, Steve Liebman) 1992
13 Sophie and the Sidewalk Man (By: Stephanie S. Tolan, Susan Avishai) 1992
14 Sophie and the Sidewalk Man 1992
15 The Witch of Maple Park (By: Stephanie S. Tolan) 1992
16 The Witch of Maple Park 1992
17 Save Halloween! (By: Stephanie S. Tolan) 1993
18 Save Halloween! 1993
19 The Face in the Mirror 1998
20 The Face in the Mirror (By: Stephanie S. Tolan) 1998
21 Bartholomew's Blessing 2004
22 Bartholomew's Blessing (By: Margie Moore, Stephanie S. Tolan) 2004
23 Listen! 2006
24 Listen! (By: Stephanie S. Tolan) 2006
25 Wishworks, Inc. 2009
26 Wishworks, Inc. (By: Amy June Bates, Stephanie S. Tolan) 2009
Harper Trophy Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Hurry Home, Candy (By: Meindert DeJong) 1953
2 Hurry Home, Candy 1953
3 Shadrach (By: Meindert DeJong) 1953
4 Shadrach 1953
5 Little Witch 1953
6 Little Witch (By: Anna Elizabeth Bennett) 1953
7 Along Came a Dog (By: Meindert DeJong) 1958
8 Along Came a Dog 1958
9 The Summer of the Falcon (By: Jean Craighead George) 1962
10 Grizzly 1964
11 Grizzly (By: Gilbert Riswold) 1964
12 Noonday Friends 1965
13 Noonday Friends (By: Mary Stolz) 1965
14 The Seventeenth-Street Gang 1966
15 The Seventeenth-Street Gang (By: Emily Cheney Neville) 1966
16 The Haunted Mountain 1972
17 Sour Land (By: William H. Armstrong) 1971
18 The Park Book 1972
19 The Park Book (By: Charlotte Zolotow) 1972
20 The Sign Of The Chrysanthemum 1973
21 A Billion for Boris 1974
22 The Haunted Mountain (By: Mollie Hunter) 1972
23 The Sign of the Chrysanthemum 1973
24 A Stranger Came Ashore 1975
25 The Wicked One 1977
26 A Billion for Boris (By: Mary Rodgers) 1974
27 Runaway to Freedom 1978
28 A Stranger Came Ashore (By: Mollie Hunter) 1975
29 Poem stew 1981
30 The Wicked One (By: Mollie Hunter) 1977
31 Runaway To Freedom ( By: Barbara Smucker) 1979
32 Summer Switch 1982
33 Poem stew (By: William Cole) 1981
34 The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl 1983
35 The Land I Lost (By: Quang Nhuong Huynh) 1982
36 Desdemona-Twelve Going on Desperate 1986
37 Hey World, Here I Am! 1986
38 Summer Switch (By: Mary Rodgers) 1982
39 The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish 1987
40 The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (By: Virginia Hamilton) 1983
41 Stonewords 1990
42 Hey World, Here I Am! (By: Jean Little) 1986
43 Desdemona-Twelve Going on Desperate (By: Beverly Keller) 1986
44 Crush 1998
45 The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish (By: Betsy Byars) 1987
46 Good Night, Maman 1999
47 Pilot Down, Presumed Dead 2009
48 Stonewords (By: Pam Conrad) 1990
49 The Land I Lost 2016
50 What's So Terrible About Swallowing an Apple Seed? (By: Harriet Lerner, Susan Goldhor) 1996
51 Crush (By: Ellen Conford) 1998
52 Will Spring Be Early? Or Will Spring Be Late? 2018
53 Good Night, Maman (By: Norma Fox Mazer) 1999
54 Pilot Down, Presumed Dead (By: Marjorie Phleger) 2009
55 Will Spring Be Early? Or Will Spring Be Late? (By: Crockett Johnson) 2018
I Can Read! Level 3 Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Weather, Poems for All seasons 0
2 Egg to Chick 0
3 Golly Sisters Go West 0
4 Greg's Microscope 1963
5 Magic Secrets 1967
6 Hill of Fire 1971
7 Small Wolf 1972
8 Dolphin 1975
9 Daniel's Duck 1979
10 The Big Balloon Race 1981
11 It's Christmas! 1981
12 Surprises ) 1984
13 The Josefina Story Quilt 1986
14 Chang's Paper Pony 1988
15 The Smallest Cow in the World 1991
16 Snowshoe Thompson 1992
17 Questions: Poems 1992
18 Questions 1992
19 Weather: Poems for All Seasons 1994
20 Weather 1994
21 Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express 1995
22 Dust for Dinner 1995
23 A Bear for Miguel 1997
24 Clara and the Bookwagon 1998
25 Emma's Yucky Brother 2001
26 Seasons: A Book of Poems 2002
27 The Night of the Living Bed 2003
28 Emma's Strange Pet 2003
29 Minnie And Moo: The Night Of The Living Bed 2004
30 Wanted Dead or Alive 2006
31 Rafi And Rosi: Carnival! 2006
32 The Just-So Woman 2006
33 Time Warp Trio: South Pole or Bust 2007
34 The High And The Flighty 2007
35 Minnie and Moo and the Haunted Sweater 2011
36 Minnie and Moo: The Case of the Missing Jelly Donut 2011
37 Shazam!: Becoming Shazam 2019
38 Shazam!: A Shazam Showdown 2019
39 The Addams Family: A Frightful Welcome 2019
40 Gigi and Ojiji: Sink or Float 2023
41 Gigi and Ojiji: Food for Thought 2023
Katherine Paterson Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Travellers in Time: Past, Present, and to Come 1980
2 The World In 1492 1992
3 When I Was Your Age: Original Stories about Growing Up 1996
4 Places I Never Meant To Be 1999
5 Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About The Future 1999
6 The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Stories 2001
7 The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L'Engle: Essays In Her Honor 2001
8 Open Your Eyes 2003
9 Acting Out 2008
10 The Exquisite Corpse Adventure 2011
11 Totally Middle School 2018
12 Totally Middle School: Tales of Friends, Family, and Fitting in 2018