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Kathi Appelt
Appelt at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Appelt at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Born (1954-07-06) July 6, 1954 (age 70)
Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.
OccupationWriter, writing teacher
Alma materTexas A&M University
Period1990s–present
GenreChildren's literature, picture books, non-fiction
Website
kathiappelt.com

Kathi Appelt (born July 6, 1954)[1] is an American author of more than forty books for children and young adults.[2] She won the annual PEN USA award for Children's Literature recognizing The Underneath (2008).[3]

Biography

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Kathi Appelt was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina,[1] and grew up in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University and lives in College Station, Texas.[4]

Appelt is the author of more than 30 books. She writes novels, picture books, poetry, and nonfiction for children and young adults.[5] Her books have been translated into several languages: Spanish, Chinese, French, and Swedish.[6] She is emerita faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.[7]

Her first novel was The Underneath, illustrated by David Small and published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. It features a cat and dog who live mainly beneath an old house in the Louisiana–Texas bayou. For that work she received the annual Children's Literature award from PEN Center USA[3] and she was also a runner-up for the National Book Award (National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist)[8] and the American Library Association Newbery Medal (Newbery Honor Book).[9]

Her papers are held in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi (unprocessed manuscripts collection, 1985–2005).[10]

Selected works

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  • Someone’s Come to Our House, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Eerdmans, 1999)[11]
  • The Alley Cat's Meow, illustrated by Jon Goodell (Harcourt, 2002)
  • Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start (Henry Holt and Co., 2002)
  • The Underneath, illustrated by David Small (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
  • Brand-New Baby Blues, illustrated by Kelly Murphy (HarperCollins, 2009)
  • Keeper, illus. August Hall (Atheneum Books, 2010)
  • The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013)
  • Maybe a Fox, illus. Alison McGee (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2016)
  • Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, co-authored by Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer (HarperCollins, 2001; Purple House Press 2019)
  • Max Attacks, illus. Penelope Dullaghan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)
  • Angel Thieves (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2019)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Kathi Appelt – Summary Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
  2. ^ "Kathi Appelt". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  3. ^ a b "2009 Lit Awards". PEN Center USA (penusa.org). Archived 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
  4. ^ "Interview with Kathi Appelt – Pine Reads Review". 7 April 2018. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  5. ^ "Interview: Children's-YA Author Kathi Appelt". Cynthia Leitich Smith. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  6. ^ "Editions of The Underneath by Kathi Appelt". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  7. ^ "Kathi Appelt". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  8. ^ "2008 National Book Award Finalist, Young People's Literature: Kathi Appelt". National Book Foundation. With linked interview transcript.
  9. ^ "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association.
  10. ^ "Kathi Appelt Papers". University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.
  11. ^ "Someone's Come to Our House by Kathi Appelt". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
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