Sam Swope
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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][4]
Swope has reviewed books for the New York Times.[5]
Books
- I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories; ISBN 978-0-8050-7851-0
- The Araboolies of Liberty Street; ISBN 978-0-374-30390-7
- The Krazees; ISBN 978-0-374-44090-9
- Gotta Go! Gotta Go!; ISBN 978-0-374-42786-3
- Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants; ISBN 978-0-374-33670-7
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