![]() ![]() In New York City, you’re much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you’re not going to find a tea party. Thinking one day about Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how pastoral the setting must seem to kids who, like her own, lived in urban surroundings. While working on a Kids WB show called Generation O! she met children’s author James Proimos, who talked her into giving children’s books a try. She also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Santa, Baby! Most recently she was the Head Writer for Scholastic Entertainment’s Clifford’s Puppy Days. ![]() For preschool viewers, she penned multiple stories for the Emmy-nominated Little Bear and Oswald. ![]() She has worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains it All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. Since 1991, Suzanne Collins has been busy writing for children’s television. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He was the Austin Poetry Slam Champ in 19 and competed on the Austin Poetry Slam Teams at the 1998 Austin National Poetry Slam and the 2001 Seattle National Poetry Slam. Fanboys is my first real original screenplay, and it got made." Spoken word įrom 1997 to 2001, Cline performed his original work at Austin Poetry Slam venues. Cline later recalled that the film "changed my whole life. It was finally released in 2009 after reshoots, reedits, and delays. Cline shot some low-budget scenes himself and shared his screenplay draft with Harry Knowles, whose connections in the film industry helped Cline get the film produced. ![]() Fanboys Ĭline co-wrote the screenplay for Fanboys, based on a storyline he had developed in the late 1990s while his mother was dying of cancer. He worked in information technology in his twenties and worked on screenwriting during his spare time. ![]() As a youth in the 1970s and 1980s, Cline was "addicted to video games and movies," especially Star Wars, the movies of John Hughes, and the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. He wrote the novels Ready Player One, Armada, and Ready Player Two and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg.Ĭline was born and raised in Ashland, Ohio, the son of Ernest Christy Cline and Faye Imogene ( née Williams) Cline. Ernest Christy Cline (born March 29, 1972) is an American science fiction novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter. ![]() ![]() Belcourt tears at these expectations, mourns them, cradles them, wallows in sadness. ![]() He is queer, he is brown, he is a modern Indigenous man in a world that wants to keep those people in the past. It’s about a boy who yearns to be loved, who is heartbroken and torn apart by the many ways he doesn’t live up to society’s expectations. His second book of poetry, NDN Coping Mechanisms, charges forward, stays vulnerable, and engages with the political, the historical, and the dark rooms of the heart. ![]() His brilliant academic brain took him to Oxford, as the first-ever Indigenous Rhodes Scholar. His first book of poetry, This Wound Is a World, made him the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. ![]() How? I picture him pulled from a bubbling golden pond of primordial goo, body fully-formed, mind sharp-sharper than any of us-bashful and steadfast. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he met Melanie, he knew! Their attraction is more than either expected or wanted. Wyatt moved into town while Melanie was away. ![]() First, her parents decided to divorce, then they "couldn't" pay for college, she got involved with the wrong man & when coming back to town for her reunion, her car dies on her. Melanie had it all in high school until she graduated. Catherine's writing gets you so emotionally involved with the story, it's easy to place your self right in the scene.īook 1 is about the girl voted most likely to succeed. The characters are well thought out & three dimensional. Her plot line is full of little twists & turns to keep you interested & surprise you along the way. She has a way of pulling you right into the story like you're part of it. I can tell you right now I'll be reading the rest of the books in the series. ![]() I purchased it because I've loved everything I've read written by her. This is book 1 of a new series by Catherine Bybee. ![]() |