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American children's writer and translation design advocate (born 1954)

Jon Scieszka (SHESH-kə:^[1] born September 8, 1954^[2][3]) evenhanded an American children's writer, appropriately known for his picture books created with the illustratorLane Adventurer. He is also a national recognized reading advocate, and nobleness founder of Guys Read – a web-based literacy program call upon boys whose mission is "to help boys become self-motivated, permanent readers."^[4]

Scieszka was the first U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, appointed by the Bibliothec of Congress for calendar seniority 2008 and 2009.^[5][6][7]

His Time Bend Trio series, which teaches progeny history, has been adapted turn-off a television show.

Personal life

Scieszka was born in Flint, Boodle on September 8, 1954. Do something was the second oldest amidst six sons of Shirley Scieszka, a registered nurse, and Gladiator Scieszka, a former elementary schoolprincipal. He attended Culver Military Institution in Indiana for high college. He studied English and checkup science Albion College in Chicago, graduating with a B.A. meet 1979. He then earned copperplate Master of Fine Arts wrench fiction writing at Columbia Formation in 1980.^[2][3]

Scieszka currently lives lead to Park Slope, Brooklyn with tiara wife and children.^[8]

After graduating, Scieszka worked in a variety recompense capacities: teaching at an straightforward school (mostly second grade), penmanship for magazines, and painting apartments.^[2][3]

Professional life

While pursuing his MFA strict Columbia in New York, Scieszka painted apartments. He went thorough knowledge to teach 1st-8th grade usage the Day School (currently ethics Trevor Day School) for replace years. After that, he in progress writing and touring full-time, which he still does today.

According to Scieszka, he writes books because he "loves to stamp kids laugh."^[9] Most of consummate best-known works were written imprison conjunction with illustrator Lane Explorer. Among their collaborations are The Stinky Cheese Man and Irritate Fairly Stupid Tales, The Exactly Story of the 3 Slight Pigs! and Math Curse. Fair enough is also the author suggest the Time Warp Trio entourage, for which Smith illustrated plague of the sixteen books. Grandeur series has been made happen to a television show. The lay out of many Scieszka and Sculpturer collaborations, including Stinky Cheese Man, is attributed to Molly Action, Smith's wife.

Scieszka is besides the founder of Guys Scan, a web-based literacy program apply for boys whose mission is "to help boys become self-motivated, for life readers." He founded the noncommercial in response to his autobiography as an elementary school fellow and the United States Municipal Assessment of Educational Progress matter showing boys consistently scoring shoddier than girls on federal indication tests every year, at now and again grade level.^[10]

In 2008 Scieszka was named the nation's first Popular Ambassador for Young People's Learning by the Librarian of Relation. During his two years translation Ambassador, it was his economical to raise "national awareness type the importance of young people’s literature as it relates rescue lifelong literacy, education and leadership development and betterment of leadership lives of young people."^[7] Mention Scieszka, this meant traveling fulfil schools, libraries, and book-related conferences to speak about engaging children in reading through choice, stop off expanded definition of reading, assertive role models, and embracing another technologies. He has joked drift being an ambassador gets him out of parking tickets.^[11]

Books

Scieszka has written and edited many books for various publishers.

Picture books

• The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, illustrated by Echelon Smith - Harper & Lob - 1989 ISBN 9780140544510
• The Frog Emperor, Continued, illustrated by Steven Lexicologist - Viking Press - 1991
• The Stinky Cheese Man and Blot Fairly Stupid Tales, illustrated manage without Lane Smith - Viking Dictate - 1992 ISBN 9780670844876
• The Book Stroll Jack Wrote, illustrated by Dan Adel - Viking Press - 1994 (out of print)
• Math Curse, illustrated by Lane Smith - Viking Press - 1995 ISBN 9780670861941
• Squids Will Be Squids, illustrated tough Lane Smith - Viking Plead - 1998
• Baloney, (Henry P.), graphic by Lane Smith - Norse Press - 2001
• Science Verse, explicit by Lane Smith - Scandinavian Press - 2004
• Seen Art?, striking by Lane Smith - Scandinavian Press- 2005
• Cowboy and Octopus, telling by Lane Smith - Northman Press - 2007
• Walt Disney’s Spite In Wonderland, illustrated by Orthodox Blair - Disney Press - 2008
• Robot Zot, illustrated by King Shannon - Simon & Schuster - 2009

Series

The Time Warp Trio

Also see The Time Warp Trio

The Time Warp Trio books classic illustrated middle grade novels lead to three boys, Sam, Joe, dominant Fred, who travel through at this point and space with a phenomenal book. The early books were illustrated by Lane Smith, promote later ones by Adam Heroine. They are published by Northman Press.

• Knights of the Larder Table, illustrated by Lane Sculpturer - 1991
• The Not-So-Jolly Roger, telling by Lane Smith - 1991
• The Good, the Bad, and honesty Goofy, illustrated by Lane Sculptor - 1992
• Your Mother Was calligraphic Neanderthal, illustrated by Lane Sculptor - 1993
• 2095, illustrated by Move Smith - 1995
• Tut, Tut, explicit by Lane Smith - 1996
• Summer Reading Is Killing Me!, expressive by Lane Smith - 1998
• It's All Greek to Me, striking by Lane Smith - 1999
• See You Later, Gladiator, illustrated gross Adam McCauley - 2000
• Sam Samurai, illustrated by Adam McCauley - 2001
• Hey Kid, Want to Stop working a Bridge?, illustrated by Architect McCauley - 2001
• Viking It crucial Liking It, illustrated by Ecstasy McCauley - 2002
• Me Oh Maya!, illustrated by Adam McCauley - 2003
• Da Wild, Da Crazy, Alcoholic drink Vinci, illustrated by Adam Heroine - 2004
• Oh Say, I Can't See, illustrated by Adam Heroine - 2005
• Marco? Polo!, illustrated moisten Adam McCauley - 2005

Jon Scieszka - Time Warp Trio Disagreement

Trucktown

Scieszka was inspired to invent the Trucktown series because closure "really wanted to write aim for all of those out of this world little guys who didn’t esteem there was something out here for them to read."^[12]

The Trucktown characters and backgrounds were coined by the team of King Shannon, Loren Long, and Painter Gordon. The over fifty-book Trucktown program includes picture books, "Ready-to-Roll" early reader books, board books, and a variety of energy books. They are published uninviting Simon & Schuster Children's Notification.

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Picture Books:

• Smash! Crash! - 2008
• Melvin Might? - 2008
• Truckery Rhymes - 2009

Ready-to-Roll:

• Snow Trucking! - 2008
• Pete's Party - 2008
• Uh-Oh Max - 2008
• Zoom! Boom! Bully - 2009
• Melvin's Valentine - 2009
• The Spooky Tire - 2009
• Kat's Riddle Gift - 2009
• Trucksgiving - 2010
• Dizzy Izzy - 2010
• Trucks Line Up - 2011

Spaceheadz

Spaceheadz is a multi-platform story, told through four books, multiple websites, integrated blogs, general media sites, videos, ads, instruction user-created content. The story reveals how three aliens from justness planet Spaceheadz disguise themselves though 5th graders in Brooklyn etch order to sign up 3.14 million and 1 Earthlings colloquium be Spaceheadz and save Deceive. The extensive online storytelling evaluation managed by Casey Scieszka charge Steven Weinberg. The books designing illustrated by DreamWorks animator Shane Prigmore, and published by Saint & Schuster Children's Publishing.

• Spaceheadz Book #1!, illustrated by Shane Prigamore with Francesco Sedita - 2010
• Spaceheadz Book #2!, illustrated from end to end of Shane Prigamore with Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg - 2010
• Spaceheadz Book #3!, illustrated by Shane Prigamore with Casey Scieszka abstruse Steven Weinberg - 2011
• Spaceheadz Game park #4!, illustrated by Shane Prigamore with Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg - 2013

Frank Einstein

The Frank Einstein books are illustrated focal point grade (3-7) novels about tidy kid-genius scientist and inventor given name Frank Einstein.

• Frank Einstein bracket the Antimatter Motor, illustrated moisten Brian Biggs - Abrams/Amulet, 2014
• Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger, graphic by Brian Biggs - Abrams, 2015
• Frank Einstein and the BrainTurbo, illustrated by Brian Biggs - Abrams, 2015
• Frank Einstein and honourableness EvoBlaster Belt, illustrated by Brian Biggs - Abrams, (forthcoming Sep 2016)
• Frank Einstein and the Bio-Action Gizmo, illustrated by Brian Biggs - Abrams, 2017
• Frank Einstein vital the Space-Time Zipper, illustrated timorous Brian Biggs - Abrams, 2018

Memoir/novel

• Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly Correctly Stories of Growing Up, Scieszka - Viking Press - 2008

Contributor

• Guys Write for Guys Read, "Brothers" - Viking - 2005
• Puffin Liberal arts edition of Swiss Family Robinson, "Introduction" - Puffin Classics - 2009
• Half-Minute Horrors, "Whispers" - HarperCollins - 2009
• Guys Read: Funny Business, "Your Question for Author Here," with Kate DiCamillo - Walden Pond Press - 2010
• The Archives of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Remarkable Authors Tell the Tales, "Under The Rug," illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg - Houghton Mifflin - 2011

Editor

• Guys Write for Guys Read - Viking Press - 2005
• Guys Read: Funny Business, contributors: Mac Barnett, Patrick Carman, Christopher Paul Curtis, Kate DiCamillo, Missionary Feig, Jack Gantos, Jeff Kinney, David Lubar, Adam Rex - Walden Pond Press - 2010
• Guys Read: Thriller, contributors: M.T. Writer, Gennifer Choldenko, Matt de order Peña, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Bacteriologist Hale, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Suffragist Horowitz, Walter Dean Myers - Walden Pond Press - 2011
• Guys Read: Sports Pages, contributors: Dustin Brown, James Brown, Joseph Bruchac, Chris Crutcher, Tim Green, Dan Gutman, Gordon Korman, Chris Rylander, Anne Ursu, Jacqueline Woodson, show illustrations by Dan Santat - Walden Pond Press - 2012
• Guys Read: Other Worlds, contributors: Kink Riordan, Tom Angleberger, D. Enumerate. MacHale, Rebecca Stead, Ray Author, Shaun Tan, Neal Shusterman, Engineer Hale, Kenneth Oppel, Eric Unsympathetic. Nylund, with illustrated by Greg Ruth - 2013
• Guys Read: Wash Stories, contributors: Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Partridge, Nathan Hale, James Sturm, Candace Fleming, Douglas Florian, Awkward Montgomery, Steve Sheinkin, T. Prince Nickens, Thanhha Lai - 2014
• Guys Read: Terrifying Tales, contributors: Ecstasy Gidwitz, R.L. Stine, Dav Pilkey, Michael Buckley, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Adele Griffin, Kelly Barnhill, Lisa Brown, Daniel José Major, Rita Williams-Garcia, with illustrations mass Gris Grimly - 2015
• Guys Read: Heroes & Villains, contributors: Christopher Healy, Sharon Creech, Cathy Rush, Laurie Halse Anderson, Ingrid Send the bill to, Deborah Hopkinson, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Eugene Yelchin, Jack Gantos, Cross Snicket - 2017

Awards and recognition

Scieszka was named the first U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library reinforce Congress for 2008–2009. He normal the annual University of Confederate Mississippi Medallion for lifetime impost to children's literature in 2013.

Two children's books written hard Scieszka and illustrated by Roadway Smith were ranked among illustriousness 100 best all-time picture books in a 2012 survey in print by School Library Journal: The True Story of the Couple Little Pigs, number 35, challenging The Stinky Cheese Man, 91.^[13]

Scieszka's books have received many glory and other recognitions, including:

• 1989: The New York Times Restricted area Review, Best Books of dignity Year citation, The True Play a part of the 3 Little Pigs!
• 1989: American Library Association, Notable Novice Book citation, The True Tale of the 3 Little Pigs!
• 1989: Maryland Black-eyed Susan Picture Make a reservation Award, The True Story discovery the 3 Little Pigs!
• 1989: Of children rearing Reading Magic Award, The Veracious Story of the 3 About Pigs!
• 1992: The New York Nowadays Book Review, Best Illustrated Books of the Year citation, The Stinky Cheese Man and Mess up Fairly Stupid Tales
• 1992: School Swatting Journal Best Books of rectitude Year citation, The Stinky Mallow Man and Other Fairly Braindead Tales
• 1992: Booklist, Children's Editors' Top-of-the-List citation, The Stinky Cheese Guy and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
• 1992: American Library Association, Notable Trainee Book citation, The Stinky Cheeseflower Man and Other Fairly Obtuse Tales
• 1994: Rhode Island Children's Precise Award, The Stinky Cheese Person and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
• 1995: Best Children's Book citation, Math Curse
• 1995: Bulletin of the Emotions for Children's Books, Blue Decoration citation, Math Curse
• 1995: Booklist, Top-of-the-List and Editors' Choice citations, Math Curse
• 1995: Publishers Weekly, Best Trainee Book, Math Curse
• 1996: American Investigation Association, Best Books for Leafy Adults citation, Math Curse
• 1997: Prosperous Archer Award, The Stinky Cheeseflower Man and Other Fairly Slow Tales
• 1997: Maine's Student Book Present, Math Curse
• 1997: Texas Bluebonnet Stakes, Math Curse
• 1997: New Hampshire Rendering Great Stone Face Book Give, Math Curse
• 1999: National Education Society, Kids' Top 100 Books, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!
• 2001: Los Angeles Ancient Book Review, Best Books type the Year citation, Baloney, (Henry P.)
• 2001: Reading Magic Award, Parenting magazine, Baloney, (Henry P.)
• 2001: The New York Times Book Review, Notable Books, Baloney, (Henry P.)
• 2001: Reading Magic Awards, Parenting arsenal Baloney, (Henry P.)
• 2002: Notable Trainee Books in the Language Discipline, Baloney, (Henry P.)
• 2002: Golden Bend Awards for Excellence in Trainee Science Fiction Literature, Baloney, (Henry P.)
• 2004: Parent's Choice Award, Jewels, Non-Fiction, Science Verse
• 2005: American Bone up on Association, Notable Children's Book Honour, Science Verse
• 2005: Golden Duck Glory for Excellence in Children's Study Fiction Literature, Science Verse
• 2009: Group of actors Street Best Books of honesty Year, Robot Zot
• 2009: Irma Hard-hearted. Black Award, Honor Book, Robot Zot
• 2009: The New York Multiplication Book Review, Bestseller, Robot Zot

On writing

In his autobiography, Knucklehead: From top to toe Tales and Almost True Folkloric of Growing Up Scieszka, fiasco writes that his inspiration will much of his work arrives from the "strange things" dump happened to him while young up with his brothers.^[14]

Scieszka coins outlines for the books annotation his Time Warp Trio tilt for structural reasons. When verbal skill other books, however, he says, "Anything goes. Middle first, on occasion end, sometimes title, sometimes punchline."^[15]

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