Jim Murphy (2) (1947–2022)
Auteur van The Great Fire
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Jim Murphy has written more than twenty-five books for young people. In addition to the Newbery Honor, which he received for The Great Fire, he has won many other awards, including the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor. He is also the two-time winner of toon meer both the SCBWI Golden Kite Award and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Mr. Murphy lives with his family in Maplewood, New Jersey toon minder
Werken van Jim Murphy
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (2003) 1,261 exemplaren
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883 (1998) 1,212 exemplaren
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863 (1998) 1,094 exemplaren
My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1881 (2001) 555 exemplaren
The Journal of Brian Doyle: A Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874 (2004) 110 exemplaren
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever (2015) 100 exemplaren
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Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 1980 — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
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- Murphy, James John Patrick
- Geboortedatum
- 1947
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2022-05-01
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- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Woodstock, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Kearny, New Jersey, USA
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA - Opleiding
- Rutgers University (Bx | English)
Radcliffe College - Beroepen
- children's book editor
managing editor
writer - Relaties
- Blank, Alison (wife)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Margaret A. Edwards Award, American Library Association (2010)
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Apparently, drawings were heavily used in the newspapers at the time - I didn't know that. Interesting that there were photos of the Blizzard too.
Of course, forecasting was in its infancy & the weatherman of the day were looking at a scientific approach, where the farmers and seamen would have been a whole lot more knowledgeable, if the forecasters would have listened.