A middle-grade novel that deals with tough subjects, including a parent¿s depression, through the lens of a young girl who finds the strength to navigate and face her family¿s struggles thanks to the transformative power of art.
| Autor: | McGlothlin, Kristin |
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| ISBN: | 9781954854017 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Veröffentlicht: | 12.10.2021 |
| Schlagworte: | Children's / Teenage personal & social topics: mental health Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Parents JUVENILE FICTION / Art |
| Altersempfehlung: | 9 - 12 |
Before becoming an award-winning author, Kristin McGlothlin was the assistant curator of education at the Norton Museum of Art, where she designed and managed the Norton¿s art and music programs. She has a BA in Art History and a BA and MA in English. Her Master¿s thesis was on the author/illustrator Edward Gorey. McGlothlin wrote and created the artwork for the children¿s picture book Andy¿s Snowball Story, about the contemporary artist Andy Goldsworthy. Her poem ¿California T-shirt¿ was published in the literary magazine Coastlines, and ¿Roman Ruins in a Modern City¿ won a haiku contest and was read on Travel with Rick Steves. McGlothlin¿s short story ¿The Red Door¿ was one of twenty-three finalists among more than four hundred entries in the Florida Weekly 2018 Writing Challenge. Drawing with Whitman, is the first in the four-book Sourland Mountain Series, which includes the recently released Listen. Drawing with Whitman is the winner of the 2019 Moonbeam Silver Medal for Pre-Teen Fiction. A writer since she was thirteen, only now, like a million years later, has she settled upon it as her career.