Deborah Hopkinson
{{short description|American writer of children's books}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Deborah Hopkinson
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|February 4, 1952}}
| birth_place = Lowell, Massachusetts
| occupation = Author
| spouse = Andrew D. Thomas
| children = 2
| website = {{URL|deborahhopkinson.com}}
}}
Deborah Hopkinson (born February 4, 1952){{Cite web |title=Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/deborah-hopkinson |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Encyclopedia.com |archive-date=2022-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020114531/https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/deborah-hopkinson |url-status=live }} is an American writer of over seventy children's books, primarily historical fiction, nonfiction and picture books.
Personal life and education
Hopkinson was born February 4, 1952, in Lowell, Massachusetts to Russell W. and Gloria D. Hopkinson.
She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1973 and a Master of Arts from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1978.
Hopkinson is married to Andrew D. Thomas, and the couple has two children: Rebekah and Dimitri. She presently lives near Portland, Oregon.{{Cite web |title=Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.adlit.org/profile/deborah-hopkinson |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=AdLit |language=en |archive-date=2022-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209171108/https://www.adlit.org/profile/deborah-hopkinson |url-status=live }}
Career
Before writing full-time, Hopkinson worked as a philanthropic fundraiser with Oregon State University, Whitman College, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.{{Cite web |last=Corbett |first=Sue |date=2016-04-14 |title=Q & A with Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/69969-q-a-with-deborah-hopkinson.html |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815063314/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/69969-q-a-with-deborah-hopkinson.html |url-status=live}} From 1981 to 1984, she served as the marketing director for the Manoa Valley Theater in Honolulu. Afterwards, she worked as a development director at the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation (1985 to 1989), then the East–West Center in Honolulu (1989 to 1994). For the next decade, she was the director of grants at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, after which she served as the director for foundation relations for the Oregon State University Foundation in Corvallis, Oregon.
Hopkinson published her first book in 1993 and has since published more than 70 books for children, including the Sibert Honor title, Titanic: Voices from the Disaster.
Awards and honors
Twenty-three of Hopkinson's books are Junior Library Guild selections:
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- A Band of Angels (May 1995){{Cite web |title=A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780689810626J&name=Band_Of_Angels |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Birdie’s Lighthouse (September 1997){{Cite web |title=Birdie's Lighthouse by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780689810527J&name=Birdies_Lighthouse |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Bluebird Summer (June 2001){{Cite web |title=Bluebird Summer by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780688173999J&name=Bluebird_Summer |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Fannie in the Kitchen (September 2001){{Cite web |title=Fannie in the Kitchen by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780689819650J&name=Fannie_In_The_Kitchen |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Girl Wonder (May 2003){{Cite web |title=Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780689833007J&name=Girl_Wonder |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Apples to Oregon (November 2004){{Cite web |title=Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780689847691J&name=Apples_To_Oregon |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Up Before Daybreak (August 2006){{Cite web |title=Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780439639019J&name=Up_Before_Daybreak |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek (November 2008){{Cite web |title=Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780375937682J&name=Abe_Lincoln_Crosses_a_Creek |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Home on the Range (January 2009){{Cite web |title=Home on the Range: John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780399239960J&name=Home_on_the_Range |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Stagecoach Sal (February 2009){{Cite web |title=Stagecoach Sal by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781423111498J&name=Stagecoach_Sal |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- A Boy Called Dickens (February 2012){{Cite web |title=A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780375867323J&name=Boy_Called_Dickens |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Titanic (April 2012){{Cite web |title=Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780545116749J&name=Titanic_Voices_from_the_Disaster |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Annie and Helen (November 2012){{Cite web |title=Annie and Helen by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780375957062J&name=Annie_and_Helen |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Knit Your Bit (April 2013){{Cite web |title=Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780399252419J&name=Knit_Your_Bit |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild |archive-date=2022-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128081336/https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780399252419J&name=Knit_Your_Bit |url-status=live }}
- The Great Trouble (January 2014){{Cite web |title=The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780375948183J&name=Great_Trouble |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- A Bandit’s Tale (June 2016){{Cite web |title=A Bandit's Tale:The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780385755009J&name=Bandits_Tale |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Steamboat School (August 2016){{Cite web |title=Steamboat School by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781423121961J&name=Steamboat_School |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild |archive-date=2021-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204013958/https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781423121961J&name=Steamboat_School |url-status=live}}
- Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (November 2016){{Cite web |title=Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780545425582J&name=Dive |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History (October 2018){{Cite web |title=D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780545682480J&name=D_Day |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- Carter Reads the Newspaper (February 2019){{Cite web |title=Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781561459346J&name=Carter_Reads_the_Newspaper |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild |archive-date=2022-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702053124/https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781561459346J&name=Carter_Reads_the_Newspaper |url-status=live }}
- Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (April 2022){{Cite web |title=Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now: The Deadliest #2 by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781338360172J&name=Deadliest_Hurricanes_Then_and_Now |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
- The Story of a Story (June 2022){{Cite web |title=The Story of a Story by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780823444915J&name=Story_of_a_Story |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild |archive-date=2022-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928150535/https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780823444915J&name=Story_of_a_Story |url-status=live}}
- The Deadliest Fires Then and Now (October 2022){{Cite web |title=The Deadliest Fires Then and Now: The Deadliest #3 by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781338360233J&name=Deadliest_Fires_Then_and_Now |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Junior Library Guild}}
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In 2012, Titanic: Voices from the Disaster was named one of the best nonfiction children's books of the year by The Horn Book Magazine.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Horn Book Fanfare 1938 to present |url=https://www.hbook.com/story/horn-book-fanfare-1938-to-present |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=The Horn Book |archive-date=2021-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030013103/https://www.hbook.com/story/horn-book-fanfare-1938-to-present |url-status=live }}
In 2017, Booklist included Steamboat School on their "Top 10 Historical Fiction for Youth" list.{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Julia |date=2017-04-15 |title=Top 10 Historical Fiction for Youth: 2017 |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=8815703 |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Booklist |archive-date=2022-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811032633/https://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=8815703 |url-status=live}}
In 2019, Carter Reads the Newspaper was named one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Public Library and the New York Public Library.
The Story of a Story was included in the Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices 2021.{{Cite web |title=The Story of a Story |url=https://deborahhopkinson.com/books/story_of_a_story/ |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Deborah Hopkinson |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129064241/https://deborahhopkinson.com/books/story_of_a_story/ |url-status=live }}
Selected books
=Picture books=
- Fannie in the Kitchen: The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented Recipes with Precise Measurements, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. Atheneum, 2001.{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/deborah-hopkinson/fannie-in-the-kitchen/ |title=FANNIE IN THE KITCHEN {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}{{Cite web |date= |title=FANNIE IN THE KITCHEN by Deborah Hopkinson |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780689819650 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}{{Cite web |title=Children's Books |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/06/17/reviews/010617.17kidd.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=archive.nytimes.com}}
=Early Readers=
- Birdie’s Lighthouse, illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root (1997)
- Maria’s Comet, illustrated by Deborah Lanino (1999)
- A Band of Angels, illustrated by Raúl Colón (2002)
- Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings, illustrated by Terry Widener (2003)
- Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (2004)
- Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall Thin Tale, illustrated by John Hendrix (2008)
- Annie and Helen, illustrated by Raúl Colón (2012)
- Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story, illustrated by Steven Guarnaccia (2013)
- Philippe Cousteau illustrated by Meilo So (2016)
- Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig, illustrated by Charlotte Voake (2016)
- A Letter to My Teacher, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (2017)
- Under the Bodhi Tree: A Story of the Buddha, illustrated by Kailey Whitman (2018)
- Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl, illustrated by Qin Leng (2018)
- Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies, illustrated by Meilo So (2020)
- My Little Golden Book about Dolly Parton (2021)
- My Little Golden Book about Betty White (2021)
- The Story of a Story, illustrated by Hadley Hooper (2021)
- Cinderella and a Mouse Called Fred, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (2023)
- Happy Earth Day! (2023)
=Middle Grade=
- Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, A Shirtwaist Worker, New York City, 1909 (2004)
- The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (2013)
- Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark (2015)
- A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket (2016)
- Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (2016)
- D‑Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History (2018)
- The Deadliest Diseases Then and Now (2021)
- We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance (2021)
- The Deadliest Fires Then and Now (2022)
- The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (2022)
See also
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References
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| title = Bio
| publisher = Deborah Hopkinson (deborahhopkinson.com)
| date =
| url = http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/content/blogcategory/30/26/
| accessdate =2008-07-14 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080507073147/http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/content/blogcategory/30/26/ |archivedate = 2008-05-07}}
|title=IRA Children's and Young Adult's Book Awards
|publisher=International Reading Association
|year=2008
|url=http://www.reading.org/association/awards/childrens_ira.html
|accessdate=2008-07-14
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512151301/http://www.reading.org/association/awards/childrens_ira.html
|archivedate=2008-05-12}}
|url = http://home.igc.org/~japa/jacba/previous_winners.html
|title = Jane Addams Peace Association – Previous Winners of the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Listed by Year
|accessdate = 2009-09-27
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080516195125/http://home.igc.org/~japa/jacba/previous_winners.html
|archivedate = 2008-05-16}}
}}
External links
- {{official website|http://www.deborahhopkinson.com}}
- {{LCAuth|n88650219|Deborah Hopkinson|45|}}
- [https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/deborah-hopkinson/ Deborah Hopkinson at Fantastic Fiction]
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Category:21st-century American women
Category:American children's writers
Category:American historical novelists
Category:Writers from Lowell, Massachusetts
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