Our childhood experiences shape us into the adults we become. Born to Write tells the stories of how six extraordinary children transformed early struggles into spellbinding bedtime reading for kids around the world. To ease the pain of being ostracized by her classmates, Madeleine L'Engle escaped to an invented world every night in her bedroom. Lucy Maud Montgomery lost her mother as a baby and her father appeared only sporadically throughout her life. And Philip Pullman, a seasoned traveler by age 10, used his long journeys by ship as inspiration for his remarkable novels. In Born to Write, Charis Cotter chronicles the early lives of these and other much-loved children's writers, including Christopher Paul Curtis, C.S. Lewis and E.B.White, revealing how each author's achievements and losses, triumphs and tragedies, helped shape our most beloved books. Interspersed throughout are sidebars highlighting other well-known children's authors, such as Hans Christian Andersen and Louisa May Alcott, whose works served as inspiration.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Annick Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9781554511921
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189611416
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Language Study
Author
Charis Cotter
Publication Name
Born to Write: the Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
482g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Charis Cotter
Illustrator
Eugenie Fernandes
Genre
Children & Young Adults
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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