Born: 1953
Excellent Books: Good Night, Gorilla; Officer Buckle and Gloria, and several others. Peggy has won many awards for her books.
Excellent Books: Good Night, Gorilla; Officer Buckle and Gloria, and several others. Peggy has won many awards for her books.
Advice for Aspiring Writers: Revise! Make that manuscript perfect! Good Night, Gorilla, one of Peggy's picture books, went through ten different endings over the course of two years. When it was finally perfect, it received an ALA Notable Children's Book Award (1994).
Website: http://www.peggyrathmann.com/index.html
6 comments:
Wow, ten endings! Good for her for keeping at it until she found the right one. That's a great lesson for all writers!
I'm so glad she kept at it, too--my kids have loved Good Night, Gorilla!
Carla
Sounds interseting! Good Night, Gorilla! Maybe I'll read it for fun. I've got two grandchildren coming this year. One in November and the other in July.
Aw, congratulations Shelly! This is one book that I have actually seen infants and toddlers love.
Carla
That's a great piece of information! I need to tell my students that, they hate revising!
Students and adults alike...revising can be a beast!
Carla
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