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Lee Bennett Hopkins (1938–2019)

Autore di Surprises

157+ opere 7,665 membri 472 recensioni 1 preferito

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Lee Bennett Hopkins was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on April 13, 1938. Hopkins' education was rather sporadic, since he often had to care for his younger sister while his mother worked to support the family. As a child, Hopkins read little other than comic books and movie magazines until a mostra altro teacher inspired in him a love of the theatre and, subsequently, of reading. Though Hopkins did well in his high school English courses, he did not enjoy other subjects and his grades in those were poor. Still, he had decided on an eventual career as a teacher and after graduating high school he began classes at the Newark State Teachers College, working several jobs in order to afford his tuition. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960, Hopkins began teaching sixth grade at a public school in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. In his third year at Westmoreland School in Fair Lawn he became the school's resource teacher. Through the principal at his own school, Hopkins obtained a scholarship to pursue a master's degree at the Bank Street College of Education in New York City. While working toward this degree, which he received in 1964, Hopkins continued as Resource Teacher at Westmoreland. In 1966 he took a position as senior consultant for Bank Street College's new Learning Resource Center in the Harlem area of New York City. Hopkins also began writing articles on children's literature and the use of poetry in the classroom, which were published in journals such as Horn Book and Language Arts. With colleague Annette F. Shapiro he wrote Creative Activities for Gifted Children, his first book. In 1967 Hopkins received a Professional Diploma in Educational Supervision and Administration from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Racial tension following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 forced Hopkins and others to reluctantly leave Harlem. He then secured another position as a curriculum and editorial specialist at Scholastic, Inc. Hopkins' career as a writer progressed; more than two dozen of his books were published during his eight-years at Scholastic. In 1976 Hopkins quit his job at Scholastic in order to become a full- time writer and poetry anthologist. He has written or compiled more than seventy-five books for children and young adults, in addition to his professional texts and his numerous contributions to education and children's literature journals. Apart from his many poetry anthologies and professional texts, Hopkins has also written young adult novels, children's stories, and non-fiction books for children. He hosted the fifteen-part children's educational television series Zebra Wings, and has also served as a literature consultant for Harper and Row's Text Division. Hopkins has won numerous honors and awards, including an honorary doctor of laws degree from Kean College in 1980 and the University of Southern Mississippi's Silver Medallion in 1989. His poetry autobiography, Been to Yesterdays, received both the Christopher Medal and a Golden Kite Honor. He has also received awards from Booklist, School Library Journal, The New York Times, The American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association. Hopkins founded the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award presented annually since 1993, and the Lee Bennett Hopkins/International Reading Association Promising Poet Award presented every three years since 1995. Lee Bennett Hopkins passsed away on August 8, 2019, at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Opere di Lee Bennett Hopkins

Surprises (1984) — A cura di — 702 copie
My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States (2000) — A cura di — 599 copie
Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems (1997) — A cura di — 359 copie
Good Books, Good Times! (1990) — A cura di — 352 copie
Side By Side: Poems to Read Together (1605) — A cura di — 291 copie
Weather: Poems for All Seasons (1994) — A cura di — 227 copie
Spectacular Science: A Book of Poems (1999) — A cura di — 203 copie
Halloween Howls: Holiday Poetry (2005) — A cura di — 200 copie
Amazing Faces: Poems (2010) — A cura di — 186 copie
Home To Me: Poems Across America (2002) — A cura di — 156 copie
Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? and Other Disasters: Poems (2005) — A cura di — 132 copie
Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry (1994) — A cura di — 121 copie
I Am the Book (2011) — A cura di — 118 copie
A Pet for Me: Poems (2003) — A cura di — 114 copie
Pterodactyls and Pizza: A Trumpet Club Book of Poetry (1992) — A cura di — 112 copie
Got Geography! (2006) — A cura di — 95 copie
Sharing the Seasons: A Book of Poems (2010) — A cura di — 79 copie
Pass the Poetry, Please! (1987) 79 copie
School Supplies: A Book of Poems (1621) — A cura di — 75 copie
Incredible Inventions (2009) 69 copie
City I Love (2009) 69 copie
Dinosaurs: Poems (1987) 67 copie
Nasty Bugs (2012) 56 copie
Manger (2014) 55 copie
Sky Magic: Poems (2009) — A cura di — 46 copie
Happy Birthday (1991) 41 copie
Me! A book of poems (1970) 39 copie
The Sky Is Full of Song (1983) 36 copie
Mary's Song (2012) 36 copie
Full Moon and Star (2011) 33 copie
Merrily Comes Our Harvest In: Poems for Thanksgiving (1978) — A cura di — 30 copie
Hey-How for Halloween! (1974) — A cura di — 30 copie
Amazing Places (2015) 28 copie
A Bunch of Punctuation (2018) 26 copie
Give Me Wings (2010) 25 copie
Easter Buds Are Springing: Poems for Easter (1979) — A cura di — 25 copie
School People (2018) 25 copie
Song And Dance (1997) 23 copie
April Bubbles Chocolate (1994) 20 copie
The Writing Bug (1993) 20 copie
Let them be themselves (1969) 18 copie
Creatures (1985) 17 copie
On the Farm/Poems (1991) 17 copie
Best Friends (1986) 16 copie
Mama (1977) 15 copie
Mama & her boys (1981) 15 copie
And God Bless Me (1982) 14 copie
I Am the Cat (1981) 14 copie
A Dog's Life (1983) 12 copie
Construction People (2020) 11 copie
This Street's For Me! (1970) 11 copie
Flit, Flutter, Fly! (1992) 11 copie
Poems to Remember (1973) 10 copie
Elves, Fairies & Gnomes (1980) 10 copie
To the Zoo: Animal Poems (1992) 10 copie
All the World's a Stage (2013) 10 copie
It's about time : poems (1993) 8 copie
Hear My Prayer (2010) 8 copie
City Talk (1970) 8 copie
Night Wishes (2020) 7 copie
Poetry on Wheels. (1974) 6 copie
Wonder Wheels (1979) 6 copie
Zoo! - A Book of Poems (1971) 4 copie
Poems from Best Friends (1993) 4 copie
By Myself (1980) 4 copie
I Loved Rose Ann (1976) 3 copie
The Best of Book Bonanza (1980) 3 copie
Love & kisses (1984) 2 copie
Best Friends 1 copia
Jungle sounds 1 copia

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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1962) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni926 copie
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Collaboratore — 346 copie
Rainbows Are Made: Poems by Carl Sandburg (1982) — A cura di — 92 copie
Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art (2003) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, September 1974 (1974) — Collaboratore — 7 copie

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This is a beautifully illustrated book of poems for each season. This one is from the season of Spring:

SUDDENLY GREEN BY JAMES HAYFORD

So suddenly greet
Our whole outdoor scene:

It's happened so fast
We're already grassed

Out trees have grown skin
And birds have moved in

What strikes me this spring
Is the speed of the thing.
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Whisper1 | 6 altre recensioni | Mar 19, 2024 |
 
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Jennihernandez | Dec 4, 2023 |
I do agree with some of the early reviewers that at first this book starts off unusual and as though you had missed a page. However, once you have read through the story, you realize that you are listening to the voice of Mary and possibly her perspective of what the night of Jesus' birth was like for her. I admit, I was more mesmerized by the lovely illustrations, than I was the story at first. I was preparing this book for my granddaughter's Christmas advent books to read, and I know she will enjoy the artwork, the stable animals, and the animal sounds. But then I thought of another family member who recently experienced an unexpected early delivery and did not have the chance to hold her baby immediately and how she would likely relate to this song of Mary, who maybe just wanted to sing a lullaby to her newborn child. It occurred to me that this story really is a unique one than can tie in a mother's love for her child, who she is holding on her lap and reading this story, and the love that Mary was wanting to express to Jesus, in the midst of all the interruptions that came to her that night. Together, mother and child can be enveloped in the awe of the First Christmas with the reading of this book.… (altro)
 
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MarySchubert | 11 altre recensioni | Nov 9, 2023 |
Independent Reading Level: Grades 4th-5th grade
Awards: Christopher Award (2009), National Council of Teachers of English Excellence in Poetry for Children Award (2009)
 
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Mathews_mallory | 2 altre recensioni | Nov 4, 2023 |

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157
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7,665
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472
ISBN
340
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