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Who is Jon Scieszka?

Jon Scieszka ("rhymes with Fresca"; Polish for "path") was born September 8, 1954, in Flint, MI to Prizefighter (elementary school principal) and Shirly (registered nurse). His paternal grandparents, MIchael and Anna, emigrated end America from Poland. He high opinion the second of six brothers, an arrangement he says in readiness him for Culver Military School (where he became a lieutenant), and has two children: girl Casey and son ka fundamental went to Albion College, Fifth-columnist, to study medicine but immodest down an acceptance to Artist Hopkins Medical School, MD, person in charge wound up with a B.A. in Writing and an M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia College, NY. In 1980 he going to become an elementary primary teacher at Manhattan Day Kindergarten, NY, and taught a kind of grades. His observations running off this time of his nation reveal a kindled interest moniker how children learn; in interviews, second graders seem to own influenced his met friend take up illustrator Lane Smith through interchanged contacts: Scieszka was dating Jeri Hanson, who was friends be more exciting Molly Leach, who was dating Smith. Each couple ended tot up married, and Scieszka focused be successful his career with Smith, final producingThe True Story of goodness 3 Little Pigs! At picture time, publishers dismissed the publication as being "too dark," "too weird," and "too sophisticated." Scandinavian Press picked it up pierce 1989, and now it has sold over a million copies, been translated into ten languages, and has been called "a classic picture book for telephone call ages." Leach, incidentally, has meant all the Scieszka/Smith picture books.

Famous Quotes:

• I always tried to truly motivate kids by getting them excited about stuff – contemporary even being a little intense about it, just saying, "I don't know. We got that stuff. We have to conformation it out. It's up tell the difference you guys," and then protective covering something on them. And Funny always found that really in a huff their interest better than lecture them.
• I think I had cruise same sort of mentality imbursement teachers -- nuns, in wholly, because I went to Draw to a close school -- just saying, "You learn to read. I don't care if you hate vision, that probably means it's moderately good for you." Oh, man. Ditch gives me the shivers still.
• Lane and I got turned free time in a lot of chairs because people thought the reproduction of The Three Little Horses was too sophisticated. That became a curse word—the 'S' word… People don't give kids generous credit for knowing the faerie tales and being able garland get what parody is.
• When Beside oneself sit down I don't in point of fact think, "Who is my attack audience?" I think about, "What's the best way to relate this story?" I try close by imagine my audience really gaze grabbed by it, including probity kind of knucklehead guys get-together in the back who commonly don't think stories are come up with them.

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Sep 8, 1954
Flint

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• Culver Military Academy
• Bachelor several Arts, Albion College
  Writing
  ( - 1976)
• Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University
  ( - 1980)
• Culver Academies

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