Sam Swope

Sam Swope is a an author and the 2006 Thurber House children's writer in residence. [cite web |url=http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=CLMB000020060331e23v0002l |title=Factiva Search |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-06-23]

Works by Swope include "I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories", a memoir recounting three years Swope spent teaching writing students at a Queens, New York, public school. [cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/08/01/RVG2S7RP771.DTL |title=Putting young lives to paper / Children's author takes a detour to teach writing at an immigrant-heavy New York grade school |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-06-23] "I Am a Pencil" won a 2005 Christopher Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, The Bechtel Prize, and was "named one of the best books of 2004 by "Publishers Weekly"." [cite web |url=http://www.samswope.org/bio.htm |title=Sam Swope - Biography |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-06-23]

Swope has reviewed books for the "New York Times". [cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/review/Swope.t.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/B/Barrie,%20James%20Matthew |title=Peter Pan Books - Books - Review - New York Times |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-06-23]

Books

*"I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories" ISBN 978-0805078510
*"The Araboolies of Liberty Street" ISBN 978-0374303907
*"The Krazees" ISBN 978-0374440909
*"Gotta Go! Gotta Go!" ISBN 978-0374427863
*"Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants" ISBN 978-0374336707

References

External links

*http://www.samswope.org/
*cite web |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3917986 |title=Young Writers in Queens: 'I Am a Pencil' : NPR |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-06-23