Laura Amy Schlitz
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May 28, 1955 Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| Pen name | Published A Gypsy at Almack’s, an Adult Romance Novel under the name of Chloe Cheshire |
| Occupation | Writer, and Lower School Librarian at Park School |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Goucher College |
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Laura Amy Schlitz (born May 28, 1955) is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at The Park School in Brooklandville, Maryland.
She received the 2008 Newbery Medal for her children's book entitled Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, and the 2013 Newbery Honor for her children's book entitled Splendors and Glooms. Her other published books are The Night Fairy (2010), The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm (2007), A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (2006; the book won a Cybil Award that year), and The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy (2006).
Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and graduated in 1977.
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village comprises more than twenty one-person plays. The 10 to 15 year old characters all live in or near a 13th-century English manor.[1]
The monologues were written for the 5th Grade curriculum at The Park School during an F. Parvin Sharpless Faculty and Curricular Advancement Program or FACA[2] at the school.
Books
Candlewick Press published all six books that are listed under Schlitz's name in the U.S. Library of Congress catalog.
- A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (2006) Cybil Award winner
- The Hero Schliemann: the dreamer who dug for Troy (2006), (illustrated by Robert Byrd)
- The Bearskinner: a tale of the Brothers Grimm (2007), retold by Schlitz, (illustrated by Max Grafe)
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (2007), Newbery Medal Winner (illustrated by Robert Byrd)
- The Night Fairy (2010), (illustrated by Angela Barrett)
- Splendors and Glooms (2012) Newbery Honor Winner
- Fire Spell (2012) (UK Edition of Splendors and Glooms)
Schlitz also wrote A Gypsy at Almack's, an Adult Romance Novel, under the name of Chloe Cheshire.
References
- ↑ "Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-05-17. Includes complete list of contents.
- ↑ FACA
External links
- Baltimore Sun article about 2008 Newbery Medal
- Park School article about 2013 Newbery Honor
- Miss Erin interview with Schlitz
- Newbery blog by Monica Edinger, teacher
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