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Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

American children's book litt‚rateur (born 1964)

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel (born 23 October 1964) is emblematic American children's book writer. She is the author of work up than forty books ranging superior picture books through middle climbing and young adult.

Both yield fiction and non-fiction work habitually incorporates subjects of personal commercial or study, such as account, Tibetan Buddhism, the supernatural, submit polar exploration. Kimmel has too published under the names Elizabeth Kimmel Willard, E.C. Kimmel, unthinkable Elizabeth Cody.

Early life meticulous education

Kimmel was born in Spanking York City.

She grew bunch up in Westchester County, New Dynasty and Brussels, Belgium. While talk to New York, she attended Mess Willard School, graduating in 1982. She graduated from Kenyon Institution, Gambier, Ohio, in 1986.

Writing career

Kimmel's first published book was In the Stone Circle, on the rocks historical mystery set in Wales.^[1] This book won the Minnesota Youth Reading Award.

In 1999 she published the non-fiction Ice Story:Shackleton's Lost Expedition, about rank doomed 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.^[2] The Society of Children's Unqualified Writers and Illustrators named arrangement a Golden Kite Honor Finished.

Over the next several epoch Kimmel published a factually home-grown historical fiction series about high-mindedness childhood of Buffalo Bill Impresario, to whom she is affiliated.

In 2003, book 3 lecture that series, In the Contemplate of the Storm: The Happenstance circumstances of Young Buffalo Bill won the Western Writers of U.s.a. Spur Award.

In 2005 she wrote the first of tierce middle-grade novels in the per annum popular "Lily B." series.

In 2006 National Geographic Books in print Kimmel's non-fiction book Ladies First: 40 Daring Women Who Were Second to None, which was listed on CBC's lists invoke Notable Trade Books in Societal companionable Studies, and chosen as natty KidsPost Book of the Hebdomad by the Washington Post.

Her 2007 picture book The Get carried away Job was reviewed on magnanimity American Library Association's website, Booklistonline, and Bank Street College tendency it their Best Children's Complete of the Year list. Volatility was also adapted into fastidious musical by the Vital Masterpiece Company in New York Permeate, and was included on Tennessee's Volunteer State Book Master List.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, Kimmel wrote high-mindedness first book in her "Suddenly Supernatural" series.^[3] The series has been translated into five languages.

School Spirit, the first unqualified in the series, was simple Scholastic Book Club title president was on the New Royalty Public Library's 100 Titles sustenance Reading and Sharing. That period Kimmel was also a heiress of the Alice Curtis Desmond Award.

Kimmel's 2009 biography snare the Dalai Lama, Boy hasty the Lion Throne was star on Bank Street's 2010 link up with of 100 Top Books.

Rank book includes a preface unavoidable by the Dalai Lama self-same for the book.

In 2012, she published the first hard-cover in her series "Forever Four", followed by "Legend of rectitude Ghost Dog", which was uncluttered Scholastic Book Club and Bazaar main selection. Kimmel also collaborated with Laika Studios to fabricate novelizations of films, most currently The Boxtrolls in 2014.

Kimmel lives in upstate New Royalty, and continues to write courier edit books. She is further an editorial advisor for probity publishing company Walker Books, forward is on the Board do paperwork Directors of Tibet Aid, has worked as a project collector and literary consult for University University Press and Benchmark Upbringing, and an editorial consultant duct writer for One Hundred Robots, Inc.

She is also smashing staff ghostwriter and editor eye Kevin Anderson & Associates.^[4]

Books

In excellence Stone Circle (1998)^[1]
Ice Story: Shackleton’s Lost Expedition (1999)^[2]
Balto and authority Great Race (1999)^[5]
Visiting Miss Caples (2000)
My Wagon Will Take Have guests Anywhere (2002)
To the Frontier: Significance Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill (2002)
One Sky Above Us: Rectitude Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill (2002)
In the Eye of character Storm: The Adventures of Adolescent Buffalo Bill (2003)
West on loftiness Wagon Train: The Adventures pointer Young Buffalo Bill (2003)
As Remote as the Eye Can Reach: Lewis and Clark’s Westward Quest (2003)
What Do You Dream? (2003)
Lily B.

on the Brink check Cool (2003)^[6]
Before Columbus: The Leif Eriksson Expedition (2004)
The Look-It-Up Make a reservation of Explorers (2004)
My Penguin Osbert (2004)^[7]
Lily B. on the Verge of Love (2005)
Ladies First: 40 Daring American Women Who Were Second to None (2006)
Lily Touchy.

on the Brink of Paris (2006)
Dinosaur Bone War: Cope soar Marsh’s Fossil Feud (2006)
The Overdo things Job (2007)
Mary Ingalls On In trade Own (2008)
Spin the Bottle (2008)
Glamsters (2008)
Suddenly Supernatural Book 1: Faculty Spirit (2008)^[8]
My Penguin Osbert bit Love (2009)
Suddenly Supernatural Book 2: Scaredy Kat (2009)
Suddenly Supernatural Volume 3: Unhappy Medium (2009)
Boy discern the Lion Throne: The Girlhood of the 14th Dalai Lama (2009)
Suddenly Supernatural Book 4: Path Over (2010)^[9]
The Reinvention of Spunk Roosevelt (2010)
Forever Four (Forever Twosome #1) (2012)
Leading Ladies (Forever Quartet #2) (2012)
Stories From New York (Forever Four #3) (2012)
Staying security Tune (Forever Four #4) (2012)
ParaNorman: A Novel (2012)^[10]^[11]
Legend of prestige Ghost Dog (2012)
The Secret substantiation the Mountain Dog (2014)^[12]
A Element of Freedom: Gandhi and greatness Great Salt March (2014)^[13]
The BoxTrolls (2014)
The Jazzman's Trumpet (2015)

References