Marion Dane Bauer
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Since 1976, Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than seventy books for young people from novelty books, picture books and early readers through writing guides and novels. She has won numerous awards, including a Newbery Honor in 1987 for her book ”On My Honor” and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages and she edited the award-winning book, ”Am I Blue? Coming Out From the Silence”. Bauer was educated at LaSalle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College, the University of Missouri and the University of Oklahoma, where she graduated in 1962. She has taught English at a Wisconsin high school and classes in creative writing in Minnesota.Marion has long been a writing teacher as well as a writer. Her book ”What’s Your Story? A Young Person’s Guide to Writing Fiction” is used by adults wanting to write for children as well as by young writers. She was the first Faculty Chair at Vermont College, developing the first Master of Fine Arts in Writing program devoted exclusively to writing for children and young adults.Bauer now lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
A Question of Trust | A Taste of Smoke | Am I Blue | An Early Winter | Baby Bear | Bear’s Hiccups | Dinosaur Thunder | Face to Face | Foster Child | Ghost Eye | If You Were Born a Kitten | Little Cat’s Luck | Little Dog, Lost | On My Honor | Rain of Fire | Runt | Shelter from the Wind | Sunshine | The Longest Night | The Stuff of Stars
A Bear Named Trouble | A Dream of Queens and Castles | A Mama for Owen | A Question of Trust | A Recipe for Valentine’s Day: A Rebus Lift-the-Flap Story | A Taste of Smoke | A Writer’s Story: From Life to Fiction | Alison’s Fierce & Ugly Halloween | Alison’s Puppy | Alison’s Wings | Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence | An Early Winter | Baby Bear Discovers the World | Bear’s Hiccups | Celebrating Arizona: 50 States to Celebrate | Celebrating California: 50 States to Celebrate | Celebrating Florida: 50 States to Celebrate | Celebrating Illinois: 50 States to Celebrate | Celebrating Massachusetts / | Celebrating New York | Celebrating North Carolina: 50 States to Celebrate | Celebrating Texas: 50 States to Celebrate | Celebrating Virginia and Washington, D.c.: 50 States to Celebrate | Celebrating Washington State: 50 States to Celebrate | Christmas Lights | Christmas in the Forest | Clouds | Crinkle, Crackle, Crack: It’s Spring! | Dinosaur Thunder | Earthquake! | Easter is coming | Face to Face: A Novel | Flood! | Foster child | Frog’s Best Friend | Ghost eye | Grand Canyon. | Grandmother’s song | Halloween Forest | Harriet Tubman | How Do I Love You? | I’m Not Afraid of Halloween!: A Pop-up and Flap Book | If Frogs Made Weather | If You Were Born a Kitten | If You had a Nose Like an Elephant’s Trunk | In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb | Jason’s Bears | Jump, Little Wood Ducks | Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins | Land of the Buffalo Bones | Like Mother, Like Daughter | Little Cat’s Luck | Little Dog, Lost | Love Song for a Baby | Mount Rushmore | My First Biography: Martin Luther King, Jr. | My Mother is Mine | Niagara Falls. | On my honor | One Brown Bunny | Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors | Rain | Rain of fire | Rainbow: Ready-to-Read Level 1 | Runt / | Shelter from the wind | Sleep, Little One, Sleep | Snow | Some Babies are Wild | Sunshine | Tangled Butterfly | Thank you for me! / | The Animals Speak: A Christmas Eve Legend | The Appalachian Trail: Ready-to-Read Level 1 | The Christmas Baby (Classic Board Books) | The Cutest Critter | The Double-Digit Club | The Golden Ghost | The Green Ghost | The Kissing Monster: A Lift the Flap Story | The Mighty Mississippi | The Night Sky: Ready-to-Read Level 1 | The Red Ghost | The Rocky Mountains | The Secret of the Painted House | The Statue of Liberty / | The Stuff of Stars | The Very Best Daddy of All | The Very Little Princess: Rose’s Story | The Very Little Princess: Zoey’s Story | The blue ghost / | The longest night | Toes, Ears, & Nose! A Lift-the-Flap Book | Touch the Moon | Turtle Dreams | Uh-Oh! : A Lift-the-Flap Story | Volcano! | Waiting for Christmas | We, the Curious Ones | When I go camping with Grandma | Why do Kittens Purr? | Wind | Winter Dance: A Winter and Holiday Book for Kids | Yellowstone /