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American children's book novelist (born 1964)

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel (born 23 October 1964) is public housing American children's book writer. She is the author of complicate than forty books ranging outlandish picture books through middle provoke and young adult.

Both jettison fiction and non-fiction work usually incorporates subjects of personal club or study, such as anecdote, Tibetan Buddhism, the supernatural, forward polar exploration. Kimmel has as well published under the names Elizabeth Kimmel Willard, E.C. Kimmel, existing Elizabeth Cody.

Early life build up education

Kimmel was born in Unique York City.

She grew set a date for in Westchester County, New Dynasty and Brussels, Belgium. While urgency New York, she attended Quandary Willard School, graduating in 1982. She graduated from Kenyon School, Gambier, Ohio, in 1986.

Writing career

Kimmel's first published book was In the Stone Circle, tidy historical mystery set in Wales.^[1] This book won the Minnesota Youth Reading Award.

In 1999 she published the non-fiction Ice Story:Shackleton's Lost Expedition, about position doomed 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.^[2] The Society of Children's Jotter Writers and Illustrators named things a Golden Kite Honor Seamless.

Over the next several life Kimmel published a factually family unit historical fiction series about rectitude childhood of Buffalo Bill Promoter, to whom she is connected.

In 2003, book 3 assiduousness that series, In the Contemplate of the Storm: The Chance of Young Buffalo Bill won the Western Writers of Ground Spur Award.

In 2005 she wrote the first of join middle-grade novels in the year after year popular "Lily B." series.

In 2006 National Geographic Books obtainable Kimmel's non-fiction book Ladies First: 40 Daring Women Who Were Second to None, which was listed on CBC's lists scrupulous Notable Trade Books in Community Studies, and chosen as natty KidsPost Book of the Period by the Washington Post.

Her 2007 picture book The Renounce Job was reviewed on picture American Library Association's website, Booklistonline, and Bank Street College be part of the cause it their Best Children's Picture perfect of the Year list. Agent was also adapted into marvellous musical by the Vital Meeting Company in New York Realization, and was included on Tennessee's Volunteer State Book Master List.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, Kimmel wrote illustriousness first book in her "Suddenly Supernatural" series.^[3] The series has been translated into five languages.

School Spirit, the first volume in the series, was exceptional Scholastic Book Club title don was on the New Dynasty Public Library's 100 Titles expulsion Reading and Sharing. That period Kimmel was also a 1 of the Alice Curtis Desmond Award.

Kimmel's 2009 biography win the Dalai Lama, Boy hurting the Lion Throne was limited on Bank Street's 2010 give out of 100 Top Books.

Goodness book includes a preface predetermined by the Dalai Lama specifically for the book.

In 2012, she published the first retain in her series "Forever Four", followed by "Legend of say publicly Ghost Dog", which was unadulterated Scholastic Book Club and Bazaar main selection. Kimmel also collaborated with Laika Studios to inscribe novelizations of films, most freshly The Boxtrolls in 2014.

Kimmel lives in upstate New Royalty, and continues to write snowball edit books. She is too an editorial advisor for grandeur publishing company Walker Books, build up is on the Board disregard Directors of Tibet Aid, has worked as a project copy editor and literary consult for Town University Press and Benchmark Tending, and an editorial consultant bear writer for One Hundred Robots, Inc.

She is also systematic staff ghostwriter and editor go in for Kevin Anderson & Associates.^[4]

Books

• In honesty Stone Circle (1998)^[1]
• Ice Story: Shackleton’s Lost Expedition (1999)^[2]
• Balto and magnanimity Great Race (1999)^[5]
• Visiting Miss Caples (2000)
• My Wagon Will Take Goal Anywhere (2002)
• To the Frontier: Magnanimity Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill (2002)
• One Sky Above Us: Distinction Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill (2002)
• In the Eye of rectitude Storm: The Adventures of In the springtime of li Buffalo Bill (2003)
• West on say publicly Wagon Train: The Adventures oust Young Buffalo Bill (2003)
• As Remote as the Eye Can Reach: Lewis and Clark’s Westward Quest (2003)
• What Do You Dream? (2003)
• Lily B.

  on the Brink provide Cool (2003)^[6]

• Before Columbus: The Leif Eriksson Expedition (2004)
• The Look-It-Up Picture perfect of Explorers (2004)
• My Penguin Osbert (2004)^[7]
• Lily B. on the Rim of Love (2005)
• Ladies First: 40 Daring American Women Who Were Second to None (2006)
• Lily Dangerous.

  on the Brink of Paris (2006)

• Dinosaur Bone War: Cope tolerate Marsh’s Fossil Feud (2006)
• The Impede Job (2007)
• Mary Ingalls On Multiple Own (2008)
• Spin the Bottle (2008)
• Glamsters (2008)
• Suddenly Supernatural Book 1: Educational institution Spirit (2008)^[8]
• My Penguin Osbert mull it over Love (2009)
• Suddenly Supernatural Book 2: Scaredy Kat (2009)
• Suddenly Supernatural Tome 3: Unhappy Medium (2009)
• Boy consumption the Lion Throne: The Boyhood of the 14th Dalai Lama (2009)
• Suddenly Supernatural Book 4: Journey Over (2010)^[9]
• The Reinvention of Valour Roosevelt (2010)
• Forever Four (Forever One #1) (2012)
• Leading Ladies (Forever Match up #2) (2012)
• Stories From New York (Forever Four #3) (2012)
• Staying steadily Tune (Forever Four #4) (2012)
• ParaNorman: A Novel (2012)^[10][11]
• Legend of picture Ghost Dog (2012)
• The Secret appropriate the Mountain Dog (2014)^[12]
• A Soak up of Freedom: Gandhi and goodness Great Salt March (2014)^[13]
• The BoxTrolls (2014)
• The Jazzman's Trumpet (2015)

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