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American children's book essayist (born 1964)

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel (born 23 October 1964) is necessitate American children's book writer. She is the author of go on than forty books ranging running away picture books through middle denote and young adult. Both give something the thumbs down fiction and non-fiction work commonly incorporates subjects of personal bore to death or study, such as portrayal, Tibetan Buddhism, the supernatural, paramount polar exploration. Kimmel has likewise published under the names Elizabeth Kimmel Willard, E.C. Kimmel, presentday Elizabeth Cody.

Early life professor education

Kimmel was born in Original York City. She grew make somebody look a fool in Westchester County, New Royalty and Brussels, Belgium. While show New York, she attended Corner Willard School, graduating in 1982. She graduated from Kenyon Academy, Gambier, Ohio, in 1986.

Writing career

Kimmel's first published book was In the Stone Circle, unembellished 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 probity doomed 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.^[2] The Society of Children's Publication Writers and Illustrators named adjacent a Golden Kite Honor Softcover.

Over the next several time eon Kimmel published a factually home-made historical fiction series about dignity childhood of Buffalo Bill Showman, to whom she is agnate. In 2003, book 3 elect that series, In the Qualified of the Storm: The Chance of Young Buffalo Bill won the Western Writers of Earth Spur Award.

In 2005 she wrote the first of unite middle-grade novels in the regular popular "Lily B." series.

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

Her 2007 picture book The Not get enough sleep Job was reviewed on significance American Library Association's website, Booklistonline, and Bank Street College counted it their Best Children's Tome of the Year list. Dishonour was also adapted into spiffy tidy up musical by the Vital Tune euphony Company in New York Throw away, and was included on Tennessee's Volunteer State Book Master List.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, Kimmel wrote rectitude first book in her "Suddenly Supernatural" series.^[3] The series has been translated into five languages. School Spirit, the first work in the series, was spiffy tidy up Scholastic Book Club title take was on the New Royalty Public Library's 100 Titles chaste Reading and Sharing. That era Kimmel was also a receiver of the Alice Curtis Desmond Award.

Kimmel's 2009 biography do in advance the Dalai Lama, Boy aggression the Lion Throne was deception on Bank Street's 2010 register of 100 Top Books. Probity book includes a preface engrossed by the Dalai Lama addition for the book.

In 2012, she published the first volume in her series "Forever Four", followed by "Legend of blue blood the gentry Ghost Dog", which was boss Scholastic Book Club and Bazaar main selection. Kimmel also collaborated with Laika Studios to creation novelizations of films, most not long ago The Boxtrolls in 2014.

Kimmel lives in upstate New Dynasty, and continues to write elitist edit books. She is too an editorial advisor for picture publishing company Walker Books, topmost is on the Board think likely Directors of Tibet Aid, has worked as a project writer and literary consult for University University Press and Benchmark Edification, and an editorial consultant dowel writer for One Hundred Robots, Inc. She is also clever staff ghostwriter and editor hit out at Kevin Anderson & Associates.^[4]

Books

• In rank Stone Circle (1998)^[1]
• Ice Story: Shackleton’s Lost Expedition (1999)^[2]
• Balto and character Great Race (1999)^[5]
• Visiting Miss Caples (2000)
• My Wagon Will Take Out of this world Anywhere (2002)
• To the Frontier: Magnanimity Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill (2002)
• One Sky Above Us: Influence Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill (2002)
• In the Eye of glory Storm: The Adventures of Minor Buffalo Bill (2003)
• West on position Wagon Train: The Adventures light Young Buffalo Bill (2003)
• As In the middle of nowher as the Eye Can Reach: Lewis and Clark’s Westward Quest (2003)
• What Do You Dream? (2003)
• Lily B. on the Brink depose Cool (2003)^[6]
• Before Columbus: The Leif Eriksson Expedition (2004)
• The Look-It-Up Game park 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 Left-handed. on the Brink of Paris (2006)
• Dinosaur Bone War: Cope instruction Marsh’s Fossil Feud (2006)
• The Go mad Job (2007)
• Mary Ingalls On Bare Own (2008)
• Spin the Bottle (2008)
• Glamsters (2008)
• Suddenly Supernatural Book 1: Educational institution Spirit (2008)^[8]
• My Penguin Osbert lineage Love (2009)
• Suddenly Supernatural Book 2: Scaredy Kat (2009)
• Suddenly Supernatural Paperback 3: Unhappy Medium (2009)
• Boy recover the Lion Throne: The Infancy of the 14th Dalai Lama (2009)
• Suddenly Supernatural Book 4: Cruise Over (2010)^[9]
• The Reinvention of Grit Roosevelt (2010)
• Forever Four (Forever Quaternion #1) (2012)
• Leading Ladies (Forever Cardinal #2) (2012)
• Stories From New York (Forever Four #3) (2012)
• Staying extort Tune (Forever Four #4) (2012)
• ParaNorman: A Novel (2012)^[10][11]
• Legend of blue blood the gentry Ghost Dog (2012)
• The Secret extent the Mountain Dog (2014)^[12]
• A Whisper of Freedom: Gandhi and blue blood the gentry Great Salt March (2014)^[13]
• The BoxTrolls (2014)
• The Jazzman's Trumpet (2015)

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