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
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Barkus
2017
2
Barkus Dog Dreams
2018
3
The Most Fun
2021
Boxcar Children Mysteries Books
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The Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm
2012
Sarah, Plain and Tall Books
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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
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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
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Wondrous Rex
2020
2
Snow Horses
2022
Libri illustrati
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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
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The Story of Easter
0
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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
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Over the River and Through the Wood (By: Lydia Maria Francis Child)
1844
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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)