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Montello 5th
grade will participate in a Writing Workshop
with Maine Children's Author Lynn Plourde on February 23, 24 and March 2,
3.
Lynn's website
Lynn Plourde
Welcome! I'm Lynn Plourde, children's book
author; but a better job title for me might be "word player." I LOVE
playing with words- fun-sounding words, rhyming words, made-up word. Words
are like toys to me. There's no right or wrong way to play with them. I
just spill them onto paper, stack them up, move them around, and see what
I can create. I never quite know how my word creations will turn out, and
that's what makes my job so fun-diciously
fun!
(from Lynn's website)
After thirteen
years of writing children’s books, Plourde had her first picture book,
“Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud,” published in 1997. “Pigs” was
illustrated by Caldecott-medalist John Schoenherr and was selected as a
School Library Journal 1997 Best Book. In 1999, Plourde had two additional
books published: “Moose, Of Course!” illustrated by Jim Sollers and “Wild
Child” illustrated by Greg Couch.
“Wild Child”
Was selected as a 1999 Lupine Honor Book by the Maine Library Association
and as an American Booksellers Kids Pick of the Lists for one of the best
picture books of 1999. In 2001 Plourde had “Winter Waits” and “Snow Day”
published. Her two newest books for 2002 are “Spring’s Sprung” and “School
Picture Day.”
Plourde also
co-authored the guidebook “A Celebration of Maine Children’s Books” with
her husband Paul Knowles. She currently has nine additional picture books
under contract which will be published in the next few years.
Plourde has
worked for 21 years as a Maine public school speech-language therapist and
has had ten educational books for teachers published including the
“Classroom Listening and Speaking” series. Plourde in a native of
Skowhegan, Maine. She currently lives in Winthrop, Maine with her family |
