Laura amy schlitz biography for kids

Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at the Park School of Baltimore in Brooklandville, Maryland.

She received the Newbery Medal for her children's book entitled Good Masters!

Laura amy schlitz biography for kids photos Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info and giveaways by email. This page was last modified on 30 August , at Robert Byrd lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey. He also illustrated Laura Amy Schlitz s first book for children, The Hero Schliemann , about the life of a nineteenth-century amateur archaeologist.

Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, and the Newbery Honor for her children's book, Splendors and Glooms. She also won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award for her young adult book, The Hired Girl. Her other published books are The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy (), A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (), which won a Cybils Award that year, The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm (), The Night Fairy (), Princess Cora and the Crocodile (), and Amber and Clay ().

Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and graduated in

Good Masters!

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Sweet Ladies!

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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village comprises more than twenty one-person plays and two two-person plays.

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The to year-old characters all live in or near a 13th-century English manor.

The monologues were written for the 5th Grade curriculum at The Park School during an F. Parvin Sharpless Faculty and Curricular Advancement Program (FACA) at the school.

The book was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in children's literature.

Splendors and Glooms

Main article: Splendors and Glooms

The main character, rich girl Clara Wintermute, lives with her parents in a wealthy section of London.

Her greatest wish for her birthday is for the puppet troupe she saw in a park one day to perform for her and her party guests. So the puppet master, Grisini, and his assistants, year-old Lizzie Rose Fawr and year-old Parsefall Hooke, visit the Wintermute home and put on their show. Then, not long after they visit, young Clara goes missing.

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Alleged kidnappers demand ransom from her parents, and Clara's father, Dr. Wintermute, brings the ransom to the appointed place, but the kidnapper never shows up. Meanwhile, an old witch is using her magic to summon Grisini to her estate near Lake Windermere. All of the children's lives soon become entangled with Grisini; the witch, Cassandra; and the Wintermutes.

And all the while, Clara is being hidden in plain sight.

The book was awarded the Newbery Honor for excellence in children's literature.

List of published books

Candlewick Press published all eight books that are listed under Schlitz's name in the U.S. Library of Congress catalog.

• A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (), Cybils Award winner
• The Hero Schliemann: the dreamer who dug for Troy (), (illustrated by Robert Byrd)
• The Bearskinner: a tale of the Brothers Grimm (), retold by Schlitz, (illustrated by Max Grafe)
• Good Masters!

  Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (), Newbery Medal Winner (illustrated by Robert Byrd)

• The Night Fairy (), (illustrated by Angela Barrett)
• Splendors and Glooms (), Newbery Honor winner
• The Hired Girl (), Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Sydney Taylor Book Award, and National Jewish Book Award winner
• Princess Cora and the Crocodile (), (illustrated by Brian Floca)
• Amber and Clay (), (illustrated by Julia Iredale)

Schlitz also wrote A Gypsy at Almack's, an adult romance novel, under the name of Chloe Cheshire.