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Selected
West Virginia Authors of Children's Literature:
Clair Bee: numerous
titles in the Chip Hilton Sports Series, including: HOOP CRAZY and
A PASS AND A PRAYER
Sandra Belton: FROM
MISS IDA'S PORCH; Ernestine and Amanda Series: ERNESTINE AND
AMANDA; SUMMER CAMP, READY OR NOT!; MEMBERS OF THE C.L.U.B.
David Bice: MAD
ANNE BAILEY; THE PRINGLE TREE
Drollene Brown:
SYBIL RIDES FOR INDEPENDENCE; BELVA LOCKWOOD WINS HER CASE
Pearl Buck: numerous
titles, including THE BIG WAVE; THE BIG FIGHT; CHRISTMAS MINIATURE
Kate Buckley: LOVE
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Betsy Byars:
numerous titles, including AFTER THE GOAT MAN; CRACKER JACKSON;
THE GLORY GIRL; GOOD-BYE, CHICKEN LITTLE; THE NIGHT SWIMMERS;
TROUBLE RIVER; and the Newbery winner SUMMER OF THE SWANS
Adjoa Burrowes:
GRANDMA'S PURPLE FLOWERS; illustrator of THE SEED SONG; UNDER THE
SKY; MY STEPS
Adjoa
J. Burrowes
Lenora Caldwell: THE
SECRET IN THE OLD MODEL T; WHAT HAPPENED TO GRANDMA?
Bonnie Collins: ROCKS IN
MY POCKETS co-authored with Marc Harshman
Nancy Evans Cooney: THE
WOBBLY TOOTH; THE BLANKET THAT HAS TO GO; DONALD SAYS THUMBS DOWN;
UMBRELLA DAY;GO AWAY MONSTERS, LICKETY SPLIT; CHATTERBOX JAMIE
Julia Davis: VAINO;
MOUNTAINS ARE FREE; MOUNT UP; PETER HALE; REMEMBER AND FORGET
Robyn Eversole: THE
MAGIC HOUSE; THE FLUTE PLAYER; FLOOD FISH; THE GIFT STONE; RED
BERRY WOOL
Robyn Eversole
Alberta Pierson Hannum:
PAINT THE WIND
Marc Harshman: A LITTLE
EXCITEMENT; SNOW COMPANY; ROCKS IN MY POCKETS;ONLY ONE; UNCLE
JAMES; MOVING DAYS; THE STORM; ALL THE WAY TO MORNING
Cheryl Ryan Harshman, Marc
Harshman, Anna Egan Smucker, Laurence Yep
Mary Haynes: POT BELLY
TALES; WORDCHANGER; CATCH THE SEA; THE GREAT PRETENDERS; RAIDER'S
SKY
Gloria Golden Heaster:
BETTY ZANE
Juliette Ann Holley: JAMIE
LEMME SEE
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard:
THE TRAIN TO LULU'S; AUNT FLOSSIE'S HATS (& CRAB CAKES LATER);
WHAT'S IN AUNT MARY'S ROOM?; CHITA'S CHRISTMAS TREE; PAPA TELLS
CHITA A STORY; MAC & MARIE AND THE TRAIN TOSS SURPRISE
Christopher Janus: MISS
4TH OF JULY, GOODBYE
Shirley Kurtz: APPLESAUCE;
BIRTHDAY CHICKENS; THE BOY AND THE QUILT
Jean Lee Latham: numerous
nonfiction titles, including the Newbery winner CARRY ON, MR.
BOWDITCH
Llewellyn McKernan: THIS
IS THE DAY; THIS IS THE NIGHT
Florence Musgrave: DOGS IN
THE FAMILY; MARY LIZZIE; STARS OVER THE TENT
Walter Dean Myers:
numerous titles including: SCORPIONS; HOOPS; WON'T KNOW TILL I GET
THERE; SOMEWHERE IN THE DARKNESS; THE YOUNG LANDLORDS; NOW IS YOUR
TIME! THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
Walter Dean Myers and Phyllis
Wilson Moore
Isaac Olaleye: BITTER
BANANAS; DISTANT TALKING DRUM: POEMS FROM NIGERIA
Melville Davisson Post:
DWELLERS IN THE HILLS
Cheryl Ryan: SALLY
ARNOLD
Cynthia Rylant: numerous
titles, including APPALACHIA: THE VOICES OF SLEEPING BIRDS;
CHILDREN OF CHRISTMAS; A FINE WHITE DUST; MISS MAGGIE; THE
RELATIVES CAME; WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN THE MOUNTAINS; and the Newbery
winner MISSING MAY
Cynthia Rylant
Brenda Seabrooke: numerous
titles including: JUDY SCUPPERNONG; THE BRIDGES OF SUMMER; THE
DRAGON THAT ATE SUMMER; THE CARE AND FEEDING OF DRAGONS; THE
HAUNTING OF HOLROYD HILL; JERRY ON THE LINE; LOOKING FOR DIAMONDS;
THE VAMPIRE IN MY BATHTUB
Brenda Seabrooke
Stella Cross Sheeter:
EARLY CANDLELIGHT STORIES; WHEN GRANDMA WAS A LITTLE GIRL
Ellen Harvey Showell: OUR
MOUNTAIN; CECELIA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAIN BOY; THE TRICKSTER GHOST
Joseph Slate: MISS
BINDERGARTEN GETS READY FOR KINDERGARTEN; MISS BINDERGARTEN CELEBRATES THE 100TH DAY OF
KINDERGARTEN; WHO IS COMING TO OUR HOUSE?; SECRET STARS; CROSSING
THE TRESTLE
Joseph Slate
Agnes Smith: THE BLUEGREEN
TREE; AN EDGE OF THE FOREST
Anna Egan Smucker: NO STAR
NIGHTS; OUTSIDE THE WINDOW
Felix Sutton: numerous titles,
including AMERICA DURING FOUR WARS; THE BIG BOOK OF CATS; WE WERE
THERE AT PEARL HARBOR ;
THE VALIANT VIRGINIAN (STONEWALL JACKSON)
Beverly Van Hook: the
Supergranny series: SUPERGRANNY: SECRET OF DEVIL MOUNTAIN;
SUPERGRANNY: MYSTERY OF THE SHRUNKEN HEADS; THE GHOST OF
HEIDELBERG CASTLE
Cheryl Ware: FLEA CIRCUS
SUMMER; CATTY-CORNERED; VENOLA IN LOVE
Cheryl Ware And Sam
Meredith Sue Willis: THE
SECRET SUPER POWERS OF MARCO; MARCO'S MONSTER
Becky Wilson-Kelly: MOTHER
GRUMPY'S DOG BISCUITS
Becky
Wilson-Kelly
Selected
Authors of Books Set in West Virginia:
Joan Anderson: PIONEER
CHILDREN OF APPALACHIA
Marie Bradby: MORE THAN
ANYTHING ELSE (about Booker T. Washington)
Truman Capote: I REMEMBER
GRANDPA
Jane Louise Curry: THE
BIRDSTONES; THE DAYBREAKERS; THE WATCHERS
Jean Fritz: STONEWALL
Mary R.
Furbee: SHAWNEE
CAPTIVE: THE STORY ON MARY DRAPER INGLES;
ANNE
BAILEY: FRONTIER SCOUT
Mary Downing Hahn: THE
TIME OF THE WITCH
Dennis Haseley: SHADOWS
Lois Lenski: COAL CAMP
GIRL
Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna: THE
BRIGHTEST LIGHT
Patricia and Frederick McKissack:
CARTER G. WOODSON: THE FATHER OF BLACK HISTORY
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor:
Newbery winner SHILOH, and sequels SHILOH SEASON; SAVING SHILOH;
JOSIE'S TROUBLES; SEND NO BLESSINGS; WRESTLE THE MOUNTAIN
Laurence Yep: THE STAR FISHER; DREAM SOUL
Jane Yolen: UNCLE
LEMON'S SPRING
Moore and Jane Yolen
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Sampling of West Virginia Folklore:
Stephen D. Brown: HAUNTED
HOUSES OF HARPERS FERRY
Elizabeth and Carl Carmer:
TONY BEAVER, GRIDDLE SKATER
Mary Cober: TONY BEAVER
Susan Crites: CONFEDERATE
GHOSTS; UNION GHOSTS; LIVELY GHOSTS; MURDER IN MARTINSBURG, WEST
VIRGINIA
Dennis Deitz: THE
GREENBRIER GHOST: AND OTHER STRANGE STORIES
Patrick Gainer: WITCHES,
GHOSTS AND SIGNS: FOLKLORE OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
Ezra Jack Keats: JOHN
HENRY: AN AMERICAN LEGEND
Julius Lester: JOHN HENRY
Gerald Milnes: GRANNY,
WILL YOUR DOG BITE, AND OTHER MOUNTAIN RHYMES; PLAY OF A FIDDLE:
TRADITIONAL MUSIC, DANCE, & FOLKLORE IN WEST VIRGINIA
Margaret Prescott Montague:
UP EEL RIVER
Ruth Ann Musick: BALLADS,
FOLK SONGS AND FOLK TALES FROM WEST VIRGINIA; COFFIN HOLLOW, AND
OTHER GHOST TALES; GREEN HILLS OF MAGIC: WEST VIRGINIA FOLKTALES
FROM EUROPE; THE TELLTALE LILAC BUSH AND OTHER WEST VIRGINIA GHOST
TALES
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