Margi Preus

Margi Preus is an American children's writer. She won a 2011 Newbery Honor Award, and Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in children's literature.^[1]

She graduated from Binghamton University.^[2] She teaches at The College of St. Scholastica, University of Minnesota Duluth.^[3] She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.^[4]

Works

• The Legend of the Lady Slipper. Illustrator Andrea Arroyo. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1999. ISBN 9780395905128. http://books.google.com/books?id=a2uM0XdezZ4C&pg=PP1&dq=Margi+Preus&hl=en&ei=k2WbTZ7mA-HH0QG_1rHlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• A Book of Grace: Words to Bring You Peace. Sourcebooks, Inc.. 2002. ISBN 9781570719776. http://books.google.com/books?id=wTRV9qkXQlEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Margi+Preus&hl=en&ei=k2WbTZ7mA-HH0QG_1rHlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• The Peace Bell, Illustrator Hideko Takahashi, Henry Holt, 2008, ISBN 9780805078008
• Heart of a Samurai, Amulet Books, 2010, ISBN 9780810989818
• Celebritrees: Historic and Famous Trees of the World. Illustrator Rebecca Gibbon. Macmillan. 2011. ISBN 9780805078299. http://books.google.com/books?id=aLgegUpe5WkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Margi+Preus&hl=en&ei=k2WbTZ7mA-HH0QG_1rHlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/118997104.html
2. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=FMIhHwAACAAJ&dq=Margi+Preus&hl=en&ei=k2WbTZ7mA-HH0QG_1rHlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBQ
3. ^ http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/aifolder/aipages/ai_p/preus.html
4. ^ http://us.macmillan.com/author/margipreus

External links

• Author's website
• "Author Interview: Margi Preus, author of Heart of a Samurai", The Fourth Musketeer, July 24, 2010
• "2010 Children's Best: Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus", Kirkus, Clayton Moore, November 15, 2010
• Meghan Cox Gurdon (August 7, 2010). "Heart of a Samurai". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704017904575409683861945498.html. 

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