Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan, autrice di fama mondiale di letteratura per bambini, è nata il 3 marzo 1938 a Cheyenne, Wyoming. Lei ha un legame unico con la prateria, dove è nata e cresciuta, e porta sempre con sé una piccola borsa di terra della prateria come promemoria delle sue radici. Questa connessione con la terra in cui è cresciuta ha influenzato in modo significativo la sua scrittura, che include molti romanzi e libri illustrati amati.

Uno dei lavori più famosi di MacLachlan è Sarah, Plain and Tall, che ha vinto la Medaglia Newbery. Il libro è il primo di una serie che include Skylark e Caleb's Story, nonché Three Names, illustrato da Mike Wimmer. La scrittura di MacLachlan è strettamente connessa ai temi del luogo e dell'appartenenza, il che non sorprende considerando la sua stessa storia personale.

In un'intervista, MacLachlan ha parlato una volta delle sue lotte con la scrittura e di come abbia dovuto trovare un modo per connettersi con la sua nuova casa nel Massachusetts occidentale. Ha trovato ispirazione in un gruppo di bambini di quarta elementare che stavano anche affrontando questioni di luogo e spaesamento. L'esperienza l'ha portata a scrivere "What You Know First", un libro che riconosce l'importanza delle nostre radici e l'impatto che il luogo può avere sulla nostra vita. La capacità di MacLachlan di connettersi con i suoi lettori e di comunicare temi profondi in un modo accessibile ai bambini l'ha resa una figura amata nella letteratura per bambini.
Barkus Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Barkus 2017
2 Barkus Dog Dreams 2018
3 The Most Fun 2021
Boxcar Children Mysteries Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm 2012
Sarah, Plain and Tall Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985
2 Skylark 1994
3 Caleb's Story 2000
4 More Perfect Than The Moon 2004
5 Grandfather's Dance 2006
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 Cassie Binegar 1980
2 Arthur, for the Very First Time 1980
3 Tomorrow's Wizard 1982
4 Seven Kisses in a Row 1983
5 Unclaimed Treasures 1984
6 The Facts And Fictions Of Minna Pratt 1988
7 Journey 1991
8 Baby 1993
9 Edward's Eyes 2007
10 The True Gift 2009
11 Word After Word After Word 2010
12 Waiting for the Magic 2011
13 Kindred Souls 2012
14 White Fur Flying 2013
15 Prairie Days 2013
16 The Truth of Me 2013
17 Fly Away 2014
18 The Poet's Dog 2016
19 Just Dance 2017
20 My Father’s Words 2018
21 Dream Within a Dream 2019
22 A Secret Shared 2021
23 My Life Begins! 2022
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 Wondrous Rex 2020
2 Snow Horses 2022
Libri illustrati
# Titolo Anno
1 The Sick Day 1979
2 Through Grandpa's Eyes 1971
3 Moon, Stars, Frogs, and Friends 1980
4 Mama One, Mama Two 1982
5 Three Names 1991
6 All the Places to Love 1994
7 Painting the Wind 2003
8 Bittle 2004
9 What You Know First 1995
10 Who Loves Me? 2005
11 Once I Ate a Pie 2006
12 Fiona Loves the Night 2007
13 I Didn't Do It 2010
14 Before You Came 2011
15 Your Moon, My Moon 2011
16 Lala Salama 2011
17 Nora's Chicks 2013
18 Snowflakes Fall 2013
19 Cat Talk 2013
20 You Were the First 2013
21 The Iridescence of Birds 2014
22 The Moon's Almost Here 2016
23 Someone Like Me 2017
24 Barkus 2017
25 Little Robot Alone 2018
26 Barkus Dog Dreams 2018
27 Chicken Talk 2019
28 The Hundred-Year Barn 2019
29 My Friend Earth 2020
30 When Grandfather Flew 2021
31 My Poet 2022
Trophy Picture Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Story of Easter 0
2 The Story Of Valentine's Day (By: Clyde Robert Bulla) 1965
3 Show & Tell Day 0
4 The Folks in the Valley (By: Stefano Vitale, Jim Aylesworth) 1970
5 What You Know First 1970
6 The Story Of Valentine's Day 1965
7 A Birthday for Frances 1969
8 How Little Porcupine Played Christmas (By: Joseph Slate) 1982
9 The Folks in the Valley 1970
10 The Gunnywolf (By: A. Delaney) 1988
11 Cats Sleep Anywhere (By: Eleanor Farjeon) 1989
12 How Little Porcupine Played Christmas 1982
13 Good Books, Good Times! (By: Lee Bennett Hopkins) 1990
14 The Gunnywolf 1988
15 Sierra (By: Diane Siebert) 1991
16 Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa (By: William Steig) 1992
17 Cats Sleep Anywhere 1989
18 Sing to the Sun (By: Ashley Bryan) 1992
19 Good Books, Good Times! 1990
20 Radio Man/Don Radio (By: Arthur Dorros) 1993
21 Sierra 1991
22 The Korean Cinderella (By: Shirley Climo) 1993
23 Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa 1992
24 My Visit to the Aquarium (By: Aliki) 1993
25 Sing to the Sun 1992
26 Radio Man/Don Radio 1993
27 Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea (By: Joyce Carol Thomas) 1993
28 The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus (By: Aliki) 1994
29 The Korean Cinderella 1993
30 Good Rhymes, Good Times (By: Lee Bennett Hopkins) 1995
31 My Visit to the Aquarium 1993
32 Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea 1993
33 The Story of Christmas (By: Barbara Cooney) 1995
34 The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus 1994
35 Buz (By: Richard Egielski) 1995
36 Good Rhymes, Good Times 1995
37 Just My Dad and Me (By: Leah Komaiko) 1995
38 The Story of Christmas 1995
39 Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table (By: Patricia Marx, Jane Read Martin) 1996
40 Wild and Woolly Mammoths (By: Aliki) 1996
41 Buz 1995
42 Just My Dad and Me 1995
43 Market Day (By: Eve Bunting) 1996
44 Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table 1996
45 Going Home (By: Eve Bunting) 1996
46 Wild and Woolly Mammoths 1996
47 The Story of Kwanzaa (By: Donna L. Washington) 1996
48 Market Day 1996
49 The Story of Passover (By: Norma Simon) 1997
50 For the Love of the Game (By: Eloise Greenfield) 1997
51 Going Home 1996
52 Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase (By: Bruce Whatley, Rosie Smith) 1997
53 The Story of Kwanzaa 1996
54 The Story of Passover 1997
55 Moonstick (By: Eve Bunting) 1997
56 For the Love of the Game 1997
57 Show & Tell Day (By: Anne Rockwell) 1997
58 Inch by Inch (By: David Mallett) 1997
59 Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase 1997
60 Moonstick 1997
61 The Story of Easter (By: Andrew Langley) 1998
62 I Have Heard of a Land (By: Joyce Carol Thomas) 1998
63 Inch by Inch 1997
64 Muscles (By: Seymour Simon) 1998
65 I Have Heard of a Land 1998
66 Muscles 1998
67 William Shakespeare And The Globe (By: Aliki) 1999
68 Grandpa's Teeth (By: Rod Clement) 1999
69 William Shakespeare And The Globe 1999
70 My Visit To The Zoo (By: Aliki) 1999
71 Thanksgiving Day (By: Anne Rockwell) 1999
72 Grandpa's Teeth 1999
73 My Visit To The Zoo 1999
74 The Irish Cinderlad (By: Shirley Climo) 2000
75 Art Dog (By: Thacher Hurd) 2004
76 Thanksgiving Day 1999
77 The Toy Brother (By: William Steig) 2016
78 The Irish Cinderlad 2000
79 Art Dog 2004
80 The Seashore Book (By: Charlotte Zolotow) 2017
81 The Toy Brother 2016
82 You're Just What I Need (By: Ruth Krauss) 2019
83 The Seashore Book 2017
84 You're Just What I Need 2019
Reading Rainbow Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Over the River and Through the Wood (By: Lydia Maria Francis Child) 1844
2 Through Grandpa's Eyes 1971
3 My Puppy Is Born (By: Joanna Cole) 1973
4 I Have a Sister--My Sister Is Deaf (By: Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson) 1977
5 Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems (By: Eloise Greenfield) 1978
6 Eats (By: Arnold Adoff) 1979
7 Mummies Made in Egypt (By: Aliki) 1979
8 "Could Be Worse!" (By: James Stevenson) 1979
9 Hot-Air Henry (By: Mary Calhoun) 1981
10 Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe (By: Vera B. Williams) 1981
11 Just Us Women (By: Jeannette Franklin Caines) 1982
12 The Philharmonic Gets Dressed (By: Karla Kuskin) 1982
13 A Medieval Feast (By: Aliki) 1983
14 Truck Song (By: Diane Siebert) 1984
15 Dabble Duck (By: Anne Leo Ellis) 1984
16 George Shrinks ( By: William Joyce) 1985
17 A Three Hat Day (By: Laura Geringer) 1985
18 Maps and Globes (By: Jack Knowlton) 1985
19 The Paper Crane (By: Molly Bang) 1985
20 Lights! Camera! Action!: How a Movie Is Made (By: Gail Gibbons) 1985
21 How a Book Is Made (By: Aliki) 1986
22 I Like the Music (By: Leah Komaiko) 1987
23 Bugs (By: Nancy Winslow Parker) 1987
24 Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (By: John Steptoe) 1987
25 An Enchanted Hair Tale (By: Alexis De Veaux) 1987
26 Sunken Treasure (By: Gail Gibbons) 1988
27 Storms (By: Seymour Simon) 1989
28 Galimoto (By: Karen Lynn Williams) 1990
29 How Many Stars in the Sky? (By: Lenny Hort) 1991
30 Water, Water Everywhere (By: Cynthia Overbeck Bix, Mark Rauzon) 1994
Patricia MacLachlan Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Dragons & Dreams 1986
2 It's Fine to Be Nine 2000
3 It's Heaven to Be Seven 2000
4 It's Great to Be Eight 2000
5 Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West 2002
6 Acting Out 2008