Sarah Weeks

American writer of children's books (born 1955)
Sarah Weeks
Weeks in 2015.
Weeks in 2015.
Born (1955-03-18) March 18, 1955 (age 69)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenrePicture books, chapter books, novels
Notable worksSo B. It, Jumping the Scratch
SpouseJim Fyfe
Children2
Website
sarahweeks.com

Sarah Weeks (born March 18, 1955) is an American writer of children's books, perhaps best known for the novel So B. It which has won several juvenile literature awards. In 2007 it won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award[1] and William Allen White Children's Book Award.

Biography

Sarah Weeks was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1955, the daughter of an English professor. She has a brother and a sister. When she was a little girl, the things she liked to do best were playing music and writing. When she grew up, she went to New York City, married, and had two sons, Gabriel and Nathaniel.

Selected works

Chapter books

Oggie Cooder series
  • Oggie Cooder
  • Oggie Cooder, Party Animal
Misadventures of Guy Strang series
  • Regular Guy (Laura Geringer/HarperCollins, 1999)
  • Guy Time
  • My Guy
  • Guy Wire
Boyds Will Be Boyds series
  • Beware of Mad Dog
  • Get Well Soon or Else!
  • Danger! Boys Dancing!
  • Fink's Funk!
Other
  • Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other School Stories
  • The Little Factory

Picture books

  • Hurricane City (HarperCollins, 1993), illustrated by James Warhola[2]

Novels

  • As Simple as it Seems
  • So B. It
  • Jumping the Scratch
  • Up All Night
  • PIE
  • Honey
  • Save Me a Seat
  • Soof

References

  1. ^ Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award
  2. ^ "Hurricane city". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2014-02-13.

External links

  • Children's literature portal
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International
  • FAST
  • ISNI
  • VIAF
National
  • Germany
  • Israel
  • United States
  • Greece
  • Korea
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
Artists
  • MusicBrainz
Other
  • SNAC
  • IdRef