Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville
Born	(1950-05-16) May 16, 1950 Syracuse, New York, United States
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	United States
Genre	Young adult fantasy and science fiction
Website
www.brucecoville.com

Bruce Coville (born May 16, 1950) is an American author of children's and young adult novels.^[1]

Early life

Bruce Coville was born May 16, 1950 in Syracuse, New York, where he grew up. As a child, Coville was an avid reader. Mary Poppins, Dr. Dolittle, and children's serials such as Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys were among his favorite books. He discovered his passion for writing in the sixth grade, and at seventeen, began to pursue writing seriously. He attended Duke University and then went to live in New York City.^[1]

Career

Before he was able to support himself as a writer, Coville worked a variety of jobs, including toymaking, gravedigging, and finally teaching at an elementary school.^[1]

His first published story was The Foolish Giant. He is most famous for his Unicorn Chronicles series, My Teacher Is an Alien, Aliens Ate My Homework, and Magic Shop series. Other lesser-known series include: Space Brat, Camp Haunted Hills, I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, The A.I. Gang, Moongobble and Me, and Nina Tanleven. His work has been featured in numerous anthologies and collections, including A Glory of Unicorns, Half Human, Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold, The Unicorn Treasury, and The Dragon Book. Anthologies created entirely from his own writing are Coville's Book of Fear, Oddly Enough, Odder Than Ever, Odds Are Good, and Oddest of All.

The Sixth Grade Alien series was illustrated by Tony Sansevero, and was eventually the basis for a television series on Fox Family in the United States and YTV in Canada.

Coville has also written picture books, retellings of William Shakespeare, and three children's plays - The Dragonslayers, Out of the Blue, and It's Midnight, Do You Know Where Your Toys Are?, all three of which are musicals. He also co-wrote the young-adult novel Armageddon Summer with Jane Yolen.

He is the founder of Full Cast Audio, an audio book company producing unbridged recordings of children's and young adult books, using full casts rather than solo readers. Authors who have worked with FCA include Elizabeth Winthrop, James Howe, Kristin Cashore, Shannon Hale, and Tamora Pierce, who wrote an original novel called Melting Stones specifically for the company to record before the print edition was made public.

Personal life

When he was nineteen, Coville married neighboring artist Katherine Dietz. They have two sons and a daughter: Orion, born in 1970, Cara, born in 1975, and Adam, born in 1981. In September 1990, Coville moved to New York City, where he lived for two years. Today they again live in Syracuse, New York.^[1]

Books

Series

Magic Shop Books

• The Monsters's Ring. Aladdin (1989). ISBN 0-671-69389-1
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (1990). Aladdin (1992). ISBN 0-671-74782-7
• Jennifer Murdley's Toad. Minstrel (1993). ISBN 0–671–79401–9
• The Skull of Truth. Aladdin (1999). ISBN 0-671-02343-8
• Juliet Dove, Queen of Love. Harcourt (2003). ISBN 0-15-204561-9

My Teacher is an Alien

• My Teacher Is an Alien. Aladdin (1990). ISBN 0-671-73729-5
• My Teacher Fried my Brains. Aladdin (1991). ISBN 0-671-72710-9
• My Teacher Glows in the Dark. Aladdin (1991). ISBN 0-671-72709-5
• My Teacher Flunked the Planet. Aladdin (1992). ISBN 0-671-75081-X

I Was a Sixth Grade Alien

• I Was a Sixth Grade Alien. Aladdin (1999). ISBN 0-671-02650-X
• The Attack of the Two-Inch Teacher. Aladdin (1999). ISBN 0-671-02651-8
• I Lost My Grandfather's Brain. Aladdin (1999). ISBN 0-671-02652-6
• Peanut Butter Lover Boy. Aladdin (2000). ISBN 0-671-02653-4
• Zombies of the Science Fair. Aladdin (2000). ISBN 0-671-02654-2
• Don't Fry My Veeblax! Aladdin (2000). ISBN 0-671-02655-0
• Too Many Aliens. Aladdin (2000). ISBN 0-671-02656-9
• Snatched From Earth. Aladdin (2000). ISBN 0-671-02657-7
• There's an Alien in My Backpack. Aladdin (2000). ISBN 0-671-02658-5
• The Revolt of the Miniature Mutants. Aladdin (2001). ISBN 0-671-02659-3
• There's an Alien in My Underwear. Aladdin (2001). ISBN 0-671-02660-7
• Farewell to Earth. Aladdin (2001). ISBN 0-671-02661-5

The Unicorn Chronicles

• Into the Land of the Unicorns. Scholastic (1994). ISBN 978-0-545-06824-6
• Song of the Wanderer. Scholastic (1999). ISBN 978-0-545-06825-3
• Dark Whispers. Scholastic (2008) ISBN 978-0-590-45952-5
• The Last Hunt. Scholastic (2010) ISBN 978-0-545-12807-0

Moongobble and Me

• The Dragon of Doom. Simon & Schuster (2003). ISBN 0-689-85754-3
• The Weeping Werewolf. Simon & Schuster (2004). ISBN 0-689-85755-1
• The Evil Elves. Simon & Schuster (2004). ISBN 0-689-85756-X
• The Mischief Monster Simon & Schuster (2007). ISBN 978-1-4169-0807-4
• The Naughty Nork Aladdin (2009). ISBN 978-1-4169-0810-4

Space Brat

• Space Brat ISBN 978-0-7857-6757-2
• Space Brat 2: Blork's Evil Twin ISBN 978-0-671-77713-5
• Space Brat 3: The Wrath of Squat ISBN 978-0-671-86844-4
• Space Brat 4: Planet of the Dips ISBN 978-0-671-50092-4
• Space Brat 5: The Saber-Toothed Poodnoobie ISBN 978-0-671-00870-3

Rod Albright Alien Adventures

• Aliens Ate My Homework
• I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X
• The Search for Snout (Aliens Stole My Dad in the UK)
• Aliens Stole My Body

Bruce Coville's Book of...

• Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters
• Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens
• Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts
• Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares
• Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers
• Bruce Coville's Book of Magic
• Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters II
• Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens II
• Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts II
• Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares II
• Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers II
• Bruce Coville's Book of Magic II

Shakespeare retellings

• The Tempest
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Macbeth
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
• Twelfth Night
• The Winter's Tale

Nina Tanleven

• The Ghost in the Third Row
• The Ghost Wore Gray
• The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed

The A. I. Gang

• Operation Sherlock
• The Cutlass Clue was written by Jim Lawrence^[2]
• Robot Trouble
• Forever Begins Tomorrow

Camp Haunted Hills

• How I Survived My Summer Vacation
• Some of My Best Friends Are Monsters
• The Dinosaur that Followed Me Home

Bruce Coville's Chamber of Horrors

• Amulet of Doom
• Spirits and Spells
• Eyes of the Tarot
• Waiting Spirit

Anthologies

• A Glory of Unicorns
• Half Human
• Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold
• The Unicorn Treasury
• Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters
• Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors
• Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds
• Bruce Coville's UFOs
• Oddly Enough Simon & Schuster (1994). ISBN 0-671-51693-0
• Odder Than Ever (1999)
• Odds Are Good Harcourt (2006). ISBN 978-0-15-205716-9
• Oddest of All (2008)

Young adult novels

• Armageddon Summer
• Fortune's Journey
• Space Station Ice-3 (published by Omni Odysseys)

Middle grade novels

• The Dragonslayers
• Goblins in the Castle(1992)ISBN;0-671-72711-7
• Monster of the Year
• The Monsters of Morley Manor
• The World's Worst Fairy Godmother
• Thor's Wedding Day
• Amber Brown is Tickled Pink (with Elizabeth Levy, September 13, 2012)^[3]

Picture books

• The Foolish Giant
• The Lapsnatcher
• My Grandfather's House
• The Prince of Butterflies
• Sarah and the Dragon
• Sarah's Unicorn
• Hans Brinker (retelling)

Nonfiction

• Prehistoric People

Contribution to the Dungeon series, organized by Philip José Farmer

• The Dark Abyss

Awards and recognitions

• California Young Reader Medal 1996-97, Jennifer Murdley's Toad
• Giverny Award, The Prince of Butterflies ^[4]
• Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature 1997 ^[5]

References

External links

• Official website
• Bruce Coville at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bruce Coville at Library of Congress Authorities, with 134 catalog records
• Robyn Tallis (shared pseudonym) at LC Authorities, with 8 records

Authority control WorldCat VIAF: 66484688 LCCN: n77014954 ISNI: 0000 0001 1492 910X GND: 123741092 BNF: cb12040415d (data)