Margi Preus
Margi Preus is an American children's writer. She was a runner-up for the 2011 Newbery Medal and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.[1]
She graduated from Binghamton University.[2] She teaches at The College of St. Scholastica, University of Minnesota Duluth.[3] She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.[4]
Works
- Shadow on The Mountain, ISBN 978-1419711596
- The Legend of the Lady Slipper. Illustrator Andrea Arroyo. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1999. ISBN 978-0-395-90512-8.
- A Book of Grace: Words to Bring You Peace. Sourcebooks, Inc. 2002. ISBN 978-1-57071-977-6.
- The Peace Bell, Illustrator Hideko Takahashi, Henry Holt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8050-7800-8
- Heart of a Samurai, Amulet Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8109-8981-8
- Celebritrees: Historic and Famous Trees of the World. Illustrator Rebecca Gibbon. Macmillan. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8050-7829-9.
she was a runner up for the 2011 newbery medal and won the Asian/Pacific American award for literature.
References
- ↑ http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/118997104.html
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=FMIhHwAACAAJ&dq=Margi+Preus&hl=en&ei=k2WbTZ7mA-HH0QG_1rHlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBQ
- ↑ http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/aifolder/aipages/ai_p/preus.html
- ↑ http://us.macmillan.com/author/margipreus
External links
- Official website
- "Author Interview: Margi Preus, author of Heart of a Samurai", The Fourth Musketeer, July 24, 2010
- "2010 Children's Best: Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus", Kirkus, Clayton Moore, November 15, 2010
- Meghan Cox Gurdon (August 7, 2010). "Heart of a Samurai". The Wall Street Journal.
- Margi Preus at Library of Congress Authorities — with 7 catalog records
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