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Lee Bennett Hopkins (1938–2019)

Auteur de Surprises

157+ oeuvres 7,665 utilisateurs 472 critiques 1 Favoris

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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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins

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Œuvres de Lee Bennett Hopkins

Surprises (1984) — Directeur de publication — 702 exemplaires
My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States (2000) — Directeur de publication — 599 exemplaires
Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems (1997) — Directeur de publication — 359 exemplaires
Good Books, Good Times! (1990) — Directeur de publication — 352 exemplaires
Side By Side: Poems to Read Together (1605) — Directeur de publication — 291 exemplaires
Weather: Poems for All Seasons (1994) — Directeur de publication — 227 exemplaires
Spectacular Science: A Book of Poems (1999) — Directeur de publication — 203 exemplaires
Halloween Howls: Holiday Poetry (2005) — Directeur de publication — 200 exemplaires
Amazing Faces: Poems (2010) — Directeur de publication — 186 exemplaires
Home To Me: Poems Across America (2002) — Directeur de publication — 156 exemplaires
Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? and Other Disasters: Poems (2005) — Directeur de publication — 132 exemplaires
Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life (1995) 126 exemplaires
Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry (1994) — Directeur de publication — 121 exemplaires
I Am the Book (2011) — Directeur de publication — 118 exemplaires
A Pet for Me: Poems (2003) — Directeur de publication — 114 exemplaires
Pterodactyls and Pizza: A Trumpet Club Book of Poetry (1992) — Directeur de publication — 112 exemplaires
Got Geography! (2006) — Directeur de publication — 95 exemplaires
Wonderful Words: Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening (2004) — Directeur de publication — 84 exemplaires
Behind the Museum Door: Poems to Celebrate the Wonders of Museums (2007) — Directeur de publication — 83 exemplaires
Sharing the Seasons: A Book of Poems (2010) — Directeur de publication — 79 exemplaires
Pass the Poetry, Please! (1987) 79 exemplaires
School Supplies: A Book of Poems (1621) — Directeur de publication — 75 exemplaires
Good Morning To You, Valentine: Poems For Valentine's Day (1976) — Directeur de publication — 70 exemplaires
Incredible Inventions (2009) 69 exemplaires
City I Love (2009) 69 exemplaires
Dinosaurs: Poems (1987) 67 exemplaires
Dino-Roars (Road to Reading) (1999) 64 exemplaires
Alphathoughts: Alphabet Poems (2003) 61 exemplaires
Nasty Bugs (2012) 56 exemplaires
YUMMY!: Eating through a Day (2000) 55 exemplaires
Manger (2014) 55 exemplaires
Extra Innings: Baseball Poems (1993) 48 exemplaires
World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from The Metropolitan Museum (2018) — Directeur de publication — 46 exemplaires
Sky Magic: Poems (2009) — Directeur de publication — 46 exemplaires
Jumping Off Library Shelves (1702) 45 exemplaires
Happy Birthday (1991) 41 exemplaires
Opening Days: Sports Poems (1996) 41 exemplaires
Me! A book of poems (1970) 39 exemplaires
Valentine Hearts: Holiday Poetry (2004) 36 exemplaires
The Sky Is Full of Song (1983) 36 exemplaires
Mary's Song (2012) 36 exemplaires
Full Moon and Star (2011) 33 exemplaires
Time to Shout: Poems for You (1973) 32 exemplaires
Merrily Comes Our Harvest In: Poems for Thanksgiving (1978) — Directeur de publication — 30 exemplaires
Hey-How for Halloween! (1974) — Directeur de publication — 30 exemplaires
Amazing Places (2015) 28 exemplaires
Beat the Drum, Independence Day Has Come: Poems for the Fourth of July (1977) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
Faces and Places Poems for You (1971) 27 exemplaires
A Bunch of Punctuation (2018) 26 exemplaires
Small Talk: A Book of Short Poems (1995) 26 exemplaires
Give Me Wings (2010) 25 exemplaires
Easter Buds Are Springing: Poems for Easter (1979) — Directeur de publication — 25 exemplaires
School People (2018) 25 exemplaires
Song And Dance (1997) 23 exemplaires
April Bubbles Chocolate (1994) 20 exemplaires
The Writing Bug (1993) 20 exemplaires
Let them be themselves (1969) 18 exemplaires
Munching: Poems About Eating (1985) 18 exemplaires
Creatures (1985) 17 exemplaires
On the Farm/Poems (1991) 17 exemplaires
Best Friends (1986) 16 exemplaires
Mother Goose and Her Children (1999) 16 exemplaires
Mama (1977) 15 exemplaires
The Sea Is Calling Me: Poems (1986) 15 exemplaires
Mother Goose through the seasons (1999) 15 exemplaires
Mama & her boys (1981) 15 exemplaires
And God Bless Me (1982) 14 exemplaires
I Am the Cat (1981) 14 exemplaires
Small circus (A solo book) (1975) 14 exemplaires
Moments: Poems About the Seasons (1980) 13 exemplaires
A Dog's Life (1983) 12 exemplaires
Construction People (2020) 11 exemplaires
This Street's For Me! (1970) 11 exemplaires
Flit, Flutter, Fly! (1992) 11 exemplaires
Poems to Remember (1973) 10 exemplaires
Elves, Fairies & Gnomes (1980) 10 exemplaires
To the Zoo: Animal Poems (1992) 10 exemplaires
All the World's a Stage (2013) 10 exemplaires
It's about time : poems (1993) 8 exemplaires
Hear My Prayer (2010) 8 exemplaires
City Talk (1970) 8 exemplaires
Building an Enriched Vocabulary (1998) 8 exemplaires
Night Wishes (2020) 7 exemplaires
Poetry on Wheels. (1974) 6 exemplaires
A song in stone : city poems (1983) 6 exemplaires
Wonder Wheels (1979) 6 exemplaires
Zoo! - A Book of Poems (1971) 4 exemplaires
Poems from Best Friends (1993) 4 exemplaires
By Myself (1980) 4 exemplaires
I Loved Rose Ann (1976) 3 exemplaires
The Best of Book Bonanza (1980) 3 exemplaires
Charlie's World: A Book of Poems (1972) 2 exemplaires
Love & kisses (1984) 2 exemplaires
I Think I Saw A Snail 2 exemplaires
Best Friends 1 exemplaire
When I Am All Alone: Poems (1972) 1 exemplaire
Jungle sounds 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1962) — Introduction, quelques éditions926 exemplaires
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Contributeur — 346 exemplaires
Rainbows Are Made: Poems by Carl Sandburg (1982) — Directeur de publication — 92 exemplaires
Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art (2003) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, September 1974 (1974) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires

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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 autres critiques | Mar 19, 2024 |
Independent reading level: 3+
 
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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.… (plus d'informations)
 
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MarySchubert | 11 autres critiques | 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 autres critiques | Nov 4, 2023 |

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Œuvres
157
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5
Membres
7,665
Popularité
#3,182
Évaluation
4.0
Critiques
472
ISBN
340
Favoris
1

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