Sam Swope

For the Kentucky businessman, see Sam Swope (businessman).

Sam Swope is an author and the 2006 Thurber House children's writer in residence.^[1]

Works by Swope include I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories, a memoir recounting three years Swope spent teaching writing students at a Queens, New York, public school.^[2] I Am a Pencil won a 2005 Christopher Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, The Bechtel Prize, and was "named one of the best books of 2004 by Publishers Weekly."^[3]

Swope has reviewed books for the New York Times.^[4]

Books

I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories ISBN 978-0805078510
The Araboolies of Liberty Street ISBN 978-0374303907
The Krazees ISBN 978-0374440909
Gotta Go! Gotta Go! ISBN 978-0374427863
Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants ISBN 978-0374336707

References

^ "Factiva Search". http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=CLMB000020060331e23v0002l. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
^ Bohjalian, Chris. "Putting young lives to paper / Children's author takes a detour to teach writing at an immigrant-heavy New York grade school". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/08/01/RVG2S7RP771.DTL. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
^ "Sam Swope - Biography". http://www.samswope.org/bio.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
^ Swope, Sam (2006-12-03). "Peter Pan Books - Books - Review - New York Times". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/review/Swope.t.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/B/Barrie,%20James%20Matthew. Retrieved 2008-06-23.

External links

http://www.samswope.org/
"Young Writers in Queens: 'I Am a Pencil' : NPR". http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3917986. Retrieved 2008-06-23.

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