Jonathan (Paul) London (1947-) Biography - Awards, Honors, Writings, Sidelights - Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Adaptations
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Born 1947, in Brooklyn, NY; Education: San Jose State University, B.A., 1969, M.A., 1970; Sonoma State University, teaching certificate for grades K-12, 1985. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking, backpacking, kayaking, cross-country skiing.
Agent—Barbara Kouts, P.O. Box 560, Bellport, NY 11713.
Freelance laborer, dancer, child counselor, display installer, 1979—; children's writer, 1989—. American Booksellers Association, panelist for Children's Book Council, 1993.
Amnesty International, Wilderness Society.
Froggy Gets Dressed and Honey Paw and Lightfoot were featured on the PBS television program Storytime; Hip Cat and Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back were featured on Reading Rainbow; What Newt Could Do for Turtle was adapted for television and broadcast in Great British and Germany.
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(With Joseph Bruchac) Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons, illustrated by Thomas Locker, Philomel Books (New York, NY), 1992. The Lion Who Had Asthma, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott, Albert Whitman (Morton Grove, IL), 1992. Froggy Gets Dressed, illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz, Viking (New York, NY), 1992. Gray Fox, illustrated by Robert Sauber, Viking (N…
Jonathan London is a poet-turned-children's book writer whose picture books reproduce the natural world for young readers. In books such as Gray Fox, The Eyes of Grey Wolf, Condor's Egg, Master Elk and the Mountain Lion, Crocodile: Disappearing Dragon, and many others, London tells fictionalized but unsentimental stories of animals in their natural habitats, tales of survival and the…
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