The Book That Made me
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Call Number: Teen 028.9 Bo, Teen Book / Nonfiction / Language Arts
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch
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Includes index.
Shaun Tan asks, why do you read? / Shaun Tan -- A feverish desire to possess / Randa Abdel-Fattah -- Twelve reasons / Markus Zusak -- A short leap / Cathy Cassidy -- "What happens next?" / Will Kostakis -- The great sense of unease / Mandy Hager -- Hooked (and a bit unsettled) / Shaun Tan -- Thwack! / Fiona Wood -- Becoming human / Bernard Beckett -- Looking where I'm standing / Felicity Castagna -- This world is more than what can be seen / Ambelin Kwaymullina -- What the doctor recommended / Queenie Chan -- Of magic and memory / Kate Constable -- The big Scooby-Doo reveal / Rachael Craw -- Sweet dreams and social fails / Simmone Howell -- Every disgusting detail / Benjamin Law -- Challenging the machinations of racism / Jared Thomas -- Invested with enchantment / Alison Croggon -- It looks like a comic / Mal Peet -- My first reader / Ursula Dubosarsky -- In folded arms / Cath Crowley -- What would Edith do? / Emily Maguire -- Putting the world to rights / Catherine Mayo -- Beyond the influence / Ted Dawe -- A sense of resolution / Simon French -- Only white people lived in books / Catherine Johnson -- Set my senses alight / Sue Lawson -- Happy endings / Brigid Lowry -- You'll go blind: a cautionary tale about the power of reading / Julia Lawrinson -- Ingenious decisions / Sue McPherson -- James remembering / James Roy -- Seeing red / Jaclyn Moriarty.
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Contents: Feverish desire to possess. -- Twelve reasons. -- Short leap. -- What happens next? -- Great sense of unease. -- Hooked (and a bit unsettled) -- Thwack! -- Becoming human. -- Looking where I'm standing. -- This world is more than what can be seen.
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PUBLISHED
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.
Year Published: 2017
Description: 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780763695491
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Ridge, Judith,
Abdel-Fattah, Randa.
Zusak, Markus.
Cassidy, Cathy, 1962-
Kostakis, Will.
Hager, Mandy.
Tan, Shaun.
Wood, Fiona
Beckett, Bernard, 1967-
Castagna, Felicity.
Kwaymullina, Ambelin, 1975-
SUBJECTS
Authors -- Books and reading.
Books and reading.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)