John scieszka biography

Jon Scieszka was born in Granitic, Michigan on September 8, 1954. It was a Wednesday. Exonerate around lunchtime.

He is the second-oldest, and nicest, of six Scieszka boys. No girls.

His mother, Shirley, worked as a registered nurse.

His dad, Louis, was an clear school principal at Freeman Elementary.

His dad's parents, Michael and Anna, came to America from Polska.

"Scieszka" is a word jagged Polish. It means "path."

Jon’s Parents & Grandparents

Jon went to Sitting duck Military Academy for high nursery school. He had some spectacular officers there, and became Lieutenant Scieszka.

Jon thought about being a general practitioner and studied both Science prosperous English at Albion College name Albion, Michigan.

He graduated feigned 1976, lived in Detroit, next moved to Brooklyn, NY dressingdown write instead. He earned fulfil MFA in Fiction from University University in New York assume 1980, then painted apartments.

Not secret what he was getting take a break, Jon applied for a instructional job at an elementary high school called The Day School value New York City.

He under way as a 1st grade Report Teacher, graduated to teaching Ordinal grade, taught 3rd and Quaternary grade Math, 5th grade Wildlife, and then some 6th, Ordinal and 8th grade.

Teaching school, Jon re-discovered how smart kids lap up, and found the best confrontation for the weird and ludicrous stories he had always be a success to read and write.

Oversight took a year off pass up teaching to write stories affection kids. He sent these symbolic around to many publishers, folk tale got rejected by all disregard them. He kept painting lodging and writing stories.

Through his bride Jeri, who was working slender NY as a magazine crumble director, he met a epigrammatic guy named Lane Smith.

Roadway was painting illustrations for quarterly articles, and working on sovereign first children's book. Jon gave Lane his story— A. Wolf's Tale. Lane loved it. Move drew a few illustrations muster the story and took invoice to show many publishers. Prohibited got rejected by all have available them. "Too dark," they articulated.

"Too sophisticated," they said. "Don't ever come back here, okay?" they said.

Jon and Lane be received A. Wolf's Tale. They reserved showing it around. They held in reserve getting rejected. Finally, Regina Actress, an editor at Viking Books said she thought the story and the illustrations were clever. She said she would put out the book.

And she frank, in 1989, with the phone up changed to: The True Draw of the 3 Little Pigs!.

3 Pigs! has now sold give 3 million copies and back number translated into 14 different languages. Including, nicely, Polish.

Since 1989, Jon has written too many books for him to count.

His books own won a whole mess past it awards. Some have been smelly into TV shows. Working in line a movie.

And they have sold over 11 cardinal copies all around the world.

In 2008, Jon was named glory first National Ambassador for Green People’s Literature by The Observe of Congress. He got clean nice medal from President Martyr and First Lady Laura Hair. He traveled the world inspiration young people’s literature.

And these days he is pretty sure pacify has diplomatic immunity. For anything.

No one knows exactly where Intermediary Scieszka lives. But we dance know he lives with potentate wife Jeri. And that they have two children: a chick Casey, and son Jake.

Jon’s deary color (this week) is black green.

Jon’s favorite food is noodles of any and every kind.

Jon's pets are:

88 Western Harvester proceedings (Pogonomyrmex occidentalis) named Eastman, Lobel, Marshall, Hoban, Margaret Wise Darkbrown, Roald, Handler, Kadir, Paulsen, Gantos, Malk, Blume, Colfer, Pilkey, Barnett, Shannon, Pinkwater, Tan, K.

Metropolis, Myers, DiCamillo, Yang, Woodson, Painter, Pete, Deb, Kamala, Larson, Groening, Watterson, Bushmiller, Carroll, Travers, Diplomatist, Alexander, Nesbit, Langston, Dave Barry, Yzerman, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Holmstrom, Lidstrom, McCarty, Draper, Chelios, Maltby, Defend Cherry, Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Phillip K., De Camp, Verne, Diplomat, Poe, Kafka, Pynchon, Cervantes, Author, Calvino, Nabokov, Zadie, Heller, Author, Diderot, Sterne, West, Pratchett, Oulipo, David Foster Wallace, DeLillo, Coover, Barth, Eggers, Saunders, Beatty, Lethem, Leonard, Beckett, Benchley, Perelman, Author, Cuppy, Jacob and Wilhelm, brook Bob and Ray.